While waiting for my train this morning I overheard someone complain
about someone leaving lights on at home. I know we all do it, but in
this case it really costs a lot of money: they had 24 halogen down-lighters
in the kitchen alone! If you assume a typical 50W per bulb, that's 1.2kW
of lighting in one room alone!
Except where I can't change the light fittings[1], we have
replaced all old style incandescent lights with compact fluorescent,
reducing our lighting from 100W to 11W per fitting (on average) and
where we can't fit cf bulbs dropping to the next size down, 30W
halogens instead of 50W and so on. Given that electricity isn't cheap
and is getting more expensive, it's really worth switching to more
efficient lighting.
- I don't own the building[2].
- I can't afford GBP250k/USD500k for a two bed cottage.
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