the light bulb police are coming
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The article uses figures for the percentage of electricity used for lighting that are about 7.5 times the figures given by DOE web sites. Either the DOE is incompetent or the people hoping to profit by forcing everyone to switch to CFLs are cutting their figures from whole cloth.
I've cited this page before.
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Table 2 indicates that lighting represents 8.8% of 2001 US residential electricity use. From other DOE statistics, residences use about 1/3 of total electricity with industry and commercial sites using approximately the same 1/3 fractions. That means residential lighting uses 8.8/3 or 2.933% of total electricity, not the 22% claimed in the article.
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Posted 5 years ago by Dave Houston in General Home Automation
