energy saving bulb

I found it difficult to buy anything more powerful than a 12W energy saving bulb in the village where I was doing fieldwork.

It was double-glazed, cavity walls and loft were insulated and a number of energy saving bulbs were in place.

Replace ordinary light bulbs with energy saving bulbs that use a quarter of the electricity to produce the same amount of light.

IKEA has recycling bins for compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs), energy saving bulbs and batteries.

Mr Shortridge said that not a single manufacturer sells the energy saving bulbs for less than £1.80, which are in turn being sold to customers for over £2.

Wal-Mart had asked the owners of the Mirage Hotel and Casino, where the conference was held, to commit to using the energy saving bulbs in its guest rooms in time for the meeting.

A practical example of the use of solar energy can be seen in some rural villages of Pakistan where houses have been provided with solar panels that run electric fans and energy saving bulbs.

This also involves energy usage within the home based on sustainable energy source, and the avoidance of energy waste while living in the home (e.g. through energy-efficient refrigerator and energy saving bulbs).

By switching to energy saving bulbs, EU citizens will save almost 40 TW h (almost the electricity consumption of 11 million European households), leading to a reduction of about 15 million metric tons of CO emissions per year.

Almost every home I've been to in China already uses energy saving bulbs, not because they are terrible concerned about the environment, but because most people, especially those in the countryside, don't have a great deal of money and are extremely thrifty and careful with their use of electricity.

Note that a CRI of 90+% is basically meaningless, since the CRI is based on 18 color swatches only, and energy saving bulbs can be tuned to work well on those samples, while performing really poorly on the rest of the visible spectrum.