Comments on: One Watt, One year, One dollar (pass it on)

By: A Cheap Way to Light Sheep | Andrew Tobias

A Cheap Way to Light Sheep | Andrew Tobias — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 23:29:43 +0000

[...] One Watt, One year, One dollar by Eric Drexler on March 8, 2009 [...]

By: Globe Forum afterword & environmental posts

Globe Forum afterword & environmental posts — Fri, 14 May 2010 20:54:55 +0000

[...] One Watt, One year, One dollar (pass it on) tells how bloggers (or anyone else able to communicate) can help reduce energy waste, immediately and with little effort, by helping to popularize a simple, memorable fact about the retail cost of electric power. (In other words: please link to this post and be pleased that you’ve done something to save the planet.) [...]

By: Geoff

Geoff — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:26:30 +0000

I love how we’re all sitting in front of our computer screens blathering on about how environmentally friendly we are. I absolutely love it.

By: Uncle B

Uncle B — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 22:08:48 +0000

Converted to CFL’s over ten years ago! Bathroom CFL still going strong! Never replaced! Did replace one “ring” style CFL in living room, it may have been bumped pretty hard in a fall at one point though! Desk lamps are all CFL’s and they never ever burn out! I bought “Phillips” brand at Canadian outlets and IKEA bulbs too. They all preform well. I have kept all bills and packaging, being very skeptical about guarantees, – so far no returns in ten years! I look forward to LED’s and will convert to lessen the load on the wiring in my century home, as soon as they are priced closer to reality and as the CFL’s burn out. Question: Since less amperage is switched each time a LED or CFL is turned on and off, should switches last longer?

By: lvleph

lvleph — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 22:57:33 +0000

I like to think of it this way. A 13W CFL will cost me $2 initially and $13 if run continuously over one year. While a standard equivalent bulb of 60W will cost me $0.50 initially and $60 if run continuously over one year.

A CFL would then save me $45.50. Now obviously hardly anyone is running a bulb that long, but what not be environmentally friendly if it will save you money. My electricity bill each month never exceeds $12 (gas heating). Every bulb I own is a CFL and I make sure I turn things off when not in use.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 20:51:21 +0000

Since this year you couln’t buy 100Watt bulbs anymore. Next year they will ban the 80 Watt bulbs. We got in germany a directive, the goverment will ban all “normal” bulbs to the year 2015 (don’t know the exact year). I think thats a good decision. I changing all dead coil bulbs into LED bulbs. The fluorescent bulbs are good to save money and energy but the production isn’t effective and they are marked as hazardous waste (lead and quicksilver) in germany.

Greetz and “think green” ;-)

By: William Carr

William Carr — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 22:30:47 +0000

Yeah, yeah.

My roommate thinks he’s a watt miser.

So he sits watching TV in the dark.

If I leave a light on in the kitchen and come into the living room, he jumps up and storms into the kitchen to shut off the light.

Meanwhile, he leaves his room air conditioner on super-cold all night long during the summer: and he takes long, hot showers.

I have explained until I’m blue in the face that I’ve replaced everything with fluorescents and LED’s.

I explain that long showers and air conditioning cost fifty times as much as leaving a light on.

He won’t listen, because he’s a fanatic. And stupid.

By: Eric Drexler

Eric Drexler — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 19:43:48 +0000

Thanks, Michael — your link brought many visitors, and I’m sure their recommendations helped bring many more who’ve gotten here through StumbleUpon and other paths.

More links to this — or simply repeating the message elsewhere — would prevent the burning of many, many tons of coal, and we can all feel good about that.