On 2011-09-12, Han wrote:
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You're 100% wrong. Light is an *INSIGNIFICANT* part of my electric bill.

If you leave your TV on standby when not watching, then that is a
significant portion. Fridge and A/C are most important, then other
appliances. Light may be a small portion, but CFL's do cut that part very
nicely. While incandescant bulbs may have a slightly nicer light, we have
gone to CFLs wherever we can.

There is some fair number of Americans using electricity for home
heating and water heaters. Air conditioning is a bightime electricity
user, and refrigerators/freezers are very significant.

As of a few months ago, the most recent studies that I could easily
find determined that about 9% of American electricity consumption and
about 11% of American electric bills were for lighting.

Not that it does not help significantly to cut that 9-11% in half, which
appears to me easily do-able. And many Americans have their lighting
accounting for well-above-average percentage of their electric bills, and
benefit greatly by using energy-efficient lighting. For example, most
apartment renters in the metropolitan areas of NYC, Philadelphia and
Chicago - where electricity cost is above national average. Also many
residents of rowhouses/townhouses/"brownstones" and most with gas or oil
heat.
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