How we halved our electric bills-- in 3 easy lessons...

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Permalink Reply by Joseph Lamy on May 9, 2011 at 7:17am

Way to go Dennis. As a nation and a people, I think we owe Mr. John Tooley one huge pile of recognition for making the ducts the energy topic of note that he did. No other single component that hid from view has been so tremendously responsible for loss and for significant opportunities to secure. And being your number one item along with 2 other accessible measures, duct sealing whacked that expenditure in half! Yahooo.

 

I did a 5-minute study of light bulb temperature. I covered four bulbs with four half-gallon milk jugs and took their temps in 5 minutes. The 40 watt incandescent was 120; the soft white CFL (40 watt replacement for comparable lumens) was 80; the daylight CFL (also 40 watt repl.) was 80; and the LED 40 watt repl was 70 and all in a 68 degree room. I don't claim to be Einstein and my basement is not Harvard or Stanford, but the truth is as you well know, these improvements save around 75% of the juice, and their contribution is especially appreciated in the cooling season when their residual heat doesn't tax the A/C.

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