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How many lbs of CO2 are saved by converting to a compact fluorescent light bulb?

Switching to a compact fluorescent light bulb is an easy way to reduce your energy consumption, while lowering your energy bill. Sources state that, "By switching one incandescent light bulb to a compact fluorescent light bulb can save 150 lbs of carbon dioxide emission a year" (www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Your-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions). This is because a compact fluorescent light bulb converts more of its consumed energy to visible light than an incandescent light bulb does. An incandescent light bulb converts 10% of its energy to visible light and 90% of it gets converted to heat, while a compact fluorescent light bulb converts 90% of its energy to visible light and 10% of its energy is converted to heat (www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Your-Greenhouse-Gas-Emissions). In California one newspaper, The Tracy Press, wrote an article that stated: "Replacing a 75-watt incandescent light bulb with a 20-watt compact fluorescent light bulb would prevent 1,300 lbs of carbon dioxide from being pumped into the atmosphere by electric plants a year" (www.tracypress.com/content/views/7533/2/). So change one light bulb to a compact fluorescent one, and save some money and reduce the carbon dioxide emission.

By: Chris DiPaolo