Change your light bulbs to save energy.

Since it’s creation lighting has been a great success, In the 20th Century the energy efficiency has been the main topic for lighting. This new journey for lighting mainly started after the oil crises of the early 70’s. Do to the crisis the cost of electricity went up and owners of commercial buildings looked at their manages to find a way to reduce the cost. The managers of offices,warehouses and stores started to retrofit their buildings with fluorescent lights, minimizing lighting in area’s of the buildings that seemed to have to much lighting. This caused the energy use to drop even though commercial building was still going up.

Today home owners can lower their energy cost drastically by changing out their light bulbs with compact florescent bulbs. Just as the commercial sector did in the 70s homeowners today can start saving a lot of money. These lights use up to 75% less energy then the normal incandescent light bulb.

For instance the light produced by a 100 watt incandescent light bulb can be produced by a 27 watt compact florescent bulb. The difference may not make you rich, but if you replace all the bulbs in the most used rooms you will see a difference on your energy bill.

We suggest changing the lights in your kitchen,living room,dining room and on your porch since these area’s of you home are most likely the rooms that use the most lighting. We also recommend using as much natural sun light during the day to light your home.

These bulbs do cost a bit more but on the bright side they do last a lot longer almost ten times as long as the normal light bulb. They tend to burn bright for around 10,000 hours well a typical bulb only burns for 800-1,000 hours.

With just changing the type of bulbs you use in you home you can cut back on the energy your home uses and lower your monthly energy bill.

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