{"id":145,"date":"2007-06-01T18:00:44","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T18:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/what-good-are-cfls-plenty-good-enough\/"},"modified":"2017-09-05T17:56:01","modified_gmt":"2017-09-05T21:56:01","slug":"what-good-are-cfls-plenty-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/what-good-are-cfls-plenty-good\/","title":{"rendered":"What Good Are CFL&#8217;s? &#8230;Plenty Good Enough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/cfl.gif\" alt=\"CFL\" \/><br \/>\nEmbrace the compact flourescent lamps (CFL&#8217;s) and ditch the incandescent bulbs. These swirly little glowers give more light with less energy. A CFL of 26 watts equates to your standard 100 watt bulb.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>These CFL&#8217;s use only one quarter of the electricity and last several years longer than incandescent bulbs. But because they contain 5 mg of mercury, you can&#8217;t throw them out with the rest of the garbage. Instead you should recycle them properly. Even though this is a small scale way to reduce your carbon footprint, if half the country made the switch (150 million people at only 5 bulbs each), we could offset 20,600,000 TONS of green house gas emissions per year. That equals 41,250,000,000 pounds of pollutants that won&#8217;t reach the atmosphere!<\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#bottom--><\/p>\n<h3 class='related_post_title'>Related Posts:<\/h3><ul class='related_post'><li>No Related Posts Found! Go find some...<\/li><\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Embrace the compact flourescent lamps (CFL&#8217;s) and ditch the incandescent bulbs. These swirly little glowers give more light with less energy. A CFL of 26 watts equates to your standard 100 watt bulb. Related Posts:No Related Posts Found! Go find some&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alternative-energy","category-green-tips","category-miscellaneous"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10119,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145\/revisions\/10119"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.energyrefuge.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}