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Energy efficient lighting: ‘This bulb looks like a soft serve ice cream’
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For those of you who didn’t swoon when Edward Norton urged us to ban the plastic bag, here is another National Geographic video featuring Hollywood starlets Natalie Portman and Chloe Sevigny. I dare you to watch it without afterwards gleefully smashing your energy-sucking bulbs and rushing out for a bunch of those efficient twirly CFL thingies.
These moppets of the big screen want us to switch from incandescent to fluorescent bulbs because it will save lots of cute animals, our families and the planet.
Ambitious?
Well, fluorescent bulbs typically last 10 to 20 times longer are 11 times more energy efficient than conventional tungsten filament luminescent ones – i.e., normal light bulbs.
Unfortunately, fluorescent bulbs contain a bit of mercury and are often not easily recycled or disposed of. Hopefully LEDs and organic LEDs will replace both, sooner than later.
Nevertheless, the EU is currently phasing out incandescent bulbs in favor of fluorescent lights (CFLs) and other more energy efficient options. So is Canada and Australia already has done so.
Check out the video with Natalie and Chloe below. I think I also hear Aimee Mann crooning in the background.
Graham Land
Additional resources:
Savings.com – The Incandescent Light Bulb Ban and the Rise of CFL and LED Bulbs
Der Spiegel – EU Light-Bulb Ban: Are Fluorescents Really the Way to Go?
Tags: bulbs, CFL, Chloe, efficient, energy, EU, fluorescent, LED, lighting, lights, Natalie
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