Goodnight Light Bulbs
If you haven’t switched over from incandescent light bulbs. Soon you won’t have a choice. The federal government passed new energy efficiency standards and they include compact fluorescent light bulbs. Starting this year the old, familiar incandescent bulbs will be phased out.
By 2014 none of the old bulbs will be produced.
Illuminating light bulb facts:
Incandescent light bulbs have been around since Thomas Edison invented them in 1879.
They are comprised of an electric lamp in which a filament is heated to incandescence by an electric current.
Today the filament is made of tungsten instead of carbon (the original filament).
If it weren’t for the light bulb there would be no GE (General Electric Company).
According to the Energy Star Change a Light Pledge, if every U.S. household trades on incandescent bulb for a CFC bulb we can reduce energy use by up to 616 million kilowatt hours of electricity in one year. That’s the equivalent of providing electricity to every household in Sacramento for 690 days.
For more CFC facts go the Energy Star website.
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