A pretty "bright" friend of mine made a good point yesterday. Incandescent bulbs are 99.9% efficient in the winter months as the heat they give off help to heat the home. The only "waste" is during the summer months.
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Quoted from wayout440:Not sure what your 99.9% refers to...if that is saying that nearly 100% of the energy used by the light bulb is converted to heat, you are pretty much correct. But, we use the lights more often than we use the heat: In the summer, you're paying double to heat your house (with an inefficient light) and cool it back down (with an air conditioner). Plus, most of your lighting is located near the ceiling, and since the heat rises it does little to help heat the home. You'd be just as well off trying to heat your house with the waste heat generated by desktop computer, television, or electric toothbrush.
Oh don't get me wrong in terms of light output vs the energy it consumes incandescent bulbs are horrible, but that "waste" energy in heat adds to warming the home that can't be disputed. So for those winter months yeah you're paying a higher electricity bill but in return getting light AND heat. That was the thought.
Oh and off topic let's talk about the EPA's intrusion into our WASHING MACHINES. Hey EPA if you would mandate that women not toss perfectly clean clothes into the hamper just because they touched their skin for 20 minutes...we might "save" more water than you could ever wish for...
Full disclosure I bought an HE washer this year. It sucked so bad that I punted it down the street six months later and went and bought a rebuilt "standard" washing machine (Maytag). Couldn't be happier with clothes dancing in water and actually getting clean again..
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Quoted from tamoore:I'm actually taking my furnace out and replacing it with one of these for the ultimate in efficient heat.
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Ha that's actually one of the vacuum tubes that ran this bad boy...
Quoted from wayout440:Of course this viewpoint doesn't do much good for the folks living in the deep south now, does it?
Now you're reaching.
Of course I'm reaching as this mandate and subsequent discussion about it is stupid.
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I have 600 hundred watt light bulbs stored in my shed...in the north where it's cold
Quoted from wayout440:Good for you - you can also enjoy replacing them approx. 20 times more often than the person that uses LED equivalents.
Yikes don't go all high and mighty on me.
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Will be selling those bulbs in 5 years at 2500% profit
Quoted from pezpunk:ugh you are ruining the light bulb hobby! you should buy bulbs because you enjoy them, not to flip them for profit
Hahahahaha post of the thread.
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