Towards sustainability, reloaded : electricity
For the second part of this series – the first one was on heating – we are having a look at electricity consumption of households and the various ways we can decrease it. This...
Tagged: CFL
China & the USA to ban incandescent light bulbs
Incandescent light bulbs are a relic of the past, a vastly inefficient past. Modern alternatives like CFLs and LEDs consume five to ten times less energy. For these reasons, the European Union or Australia...
A reflection on CFLs and leaving them on
I would like to share with you some personal experience on energy efficiency and sobriety as I got back for a few days to visit my parents. I then noticed my dad has the...
Think CFLs are great ? Read on…
CFLs consume up to five time less energy than traditional incandescent and halogen bulbs. This convinced several countries including the European Union and India to increasingly use them. Now LEDs are slowly reaching the...
India goes deeper into climate change mitigation
To my regret, I don’t write much on how India is willing to mitigate climate change as I lack information. But today’s the occasion to repair this as I came across two different articles...
EU bans incandescent light bulbs by 2010
The European Union decided last week to ban all incandescent light bulbs by 2010. This occurs as Australia, Cuba and the Philippines did the same last year. This is important as the EU and...
A great video on why CFL are fantastic
If you had a look recently at the sidebar of this blog, you may have noticed that I added a link on what is RSS just next to the subscription button. This sends you...