My power company just sent me free LED bulbs. If your power company has offered this, and you haven't taken advantage of it, DO IT! If I had traditional incandescent bulbs in my house to begin with, there would be 720 watts of power in just the lights. The LED bulbs brought that number down to 92. That is effectively 1/8th the power. I wrote a paper about cost savings on a government housing project for switching to LED lighting. If you want to apply this to just yourself, add the government benefits to the tenant benefits. TLDR version: No matter what type of light bulb you have, its better by a significant amount, to switch to LEDs. The numbers are below. As I will explain below, the numbers are based on my apartment complex, but I also have between 200-400 consistent readers of my blog, so if every one of my readers changed to LEDs, it could have a net 20 year benefit of $400k-800k for all of them, or a $2,000 20 year benefit per person (all based on today's dollars). The...
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