Why Aren’t You Using Energy Saving Lightbulbs?

Energy Saving Lightbulbs with Save You Money It may seem unbelievable but there are still many homes throughout the UK that are not using energy saving light-bulbs. One of the reasons is thought to be the poor quality of light produced by the energy saving bulbs that used to be available years ago, along with the higher initial cost.

But times have changed and homeowners really need to wake up to the fact that todays energy saving lightbulbs are of far higher quality than bulbs that were available even only a few years ago. Many of today’s energy saving bulbs warm up to full brightness in a matter of seconds and the light they produce is now far brighter than it used to be. They are available in a variety of shapes and sizes that will fit most forms of light fitting including table lamps and standard lamps. There are even compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) that will work with light dimmers.

With todays rocketing energy prices it’s surprising how many homes still use old fashioned incandescent lights. The price of energy saving equivalents has fallen considerably as the quality of these bulbs has improved and they are now readily available from most supermarkets so there really is no excuse for not changing over.


Written by Hybrid on July 14th, 2008 with 4 comments.
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Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Uncle Tom
#1. July 19th, 2008, at 5:42 PM.

Many people are still wasting energy, and their money, using old fashioned light bulbs. A massive re-education programme is needed -

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#2. November 24th, 2008, at 10:58 AM.

Yes i really can’t understand why it is taking people so long to get the message about energy saving lightbulbs.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Colin Attard
#3. February 28th, 2009, at 10:51 AM.

Although I use energy savers (not for the energy saving reason because I believe that lighting uses only a small fraction of our consumption) I don’t agree with the banning of incandescent light bulbs and I also believe that the whole issue is BIG business. Banning totally recyclable product and putting in it’s place something with materials like mercury, plastics, gels, electronics and so on proves my point. A big business similar to this one was introduced a few years ago with street lighting. All responsible for street lighting where “ordered” to replace the traditional street lighting from Mercury the ones that produced daylight or white light to Sodium the ones we are getting used to today with amber light, all this to eliminate the dangers of mercury in our environment. Billions of Euro where spent throughout Europe for this big change over. Can anyone see my point? Spending Billions to remove mercury from our street lamps and spending billions to promote a new lamp for our homes that besides other things has mercury in it. I think people are a bit more intelligent.

Get your own gravatar by visiting gravatar.com Martin@Lamps
#4. October 2nd, 2009, at 10:18 AM.

Are there any statistics about the adoption rate of energy saving light bulbs in the UK, Europe and US?

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