{"id":493,"date":"2009-02-01T10:27:49","date_gmt":"2009-02-01T15:27:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/?p=493"},"modified":"2009-02-01T10:27:49","modified_gmt":"2009-02-01T15:27:49","slug":"how-much-do-our-cf-bulbs-save","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/how-much-do-our-cf-bulbs-save\/","title":{"rendered":"How much do our CF bulbs save?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We recently replaced most of our incandescent bulbs with  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/29\/not-all-cf-bulbs-are-created-equal\/\">instant-on<\/a> CF light-bulbs. I cheated by upgrading our light output (using 100 watt equivalent bulbs to replace 60 watt incandescent bulbs) but each bulb should still save 34 watts.<\/p>\n<p>I loosely estimated our daily light usage (over weekdays and weekends) on the newly CF fixtures as the following:<\/p>\n<p>Bedroom (1 bulb): 1 hour<br \/>\nBathroom (3 bulbs): 2 hours<br \/>\nHallway (2 bulbs): 6 hours<br \/>\nSewing Room (2 bulbs): 1.5 hour<br \/>\nLiving Room (5 bulbs): 7 hours<\/p>\n<p>We are saving (57 bulb hours * 34 watts) 1938 watts a day, approximately 2 KWh a day, or 60 KWh a month, or $6 a month (at $0.10 a KWh). We should pay for the CF light bulbs in seven months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We recently replaced most of our incandescent bulbs with instant-on CF light-bulbs. I cheated by upgrading our light output (using 100 watt equivalent bulbs to replace 60 watt incandescent bulbs) but each bulb should still save 34 watts. I loosely &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/01\/how-much-do-our-cf-bulbs-save\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-projects"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.summet.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}