Current Events > Lmao at this article about the cost of not turning off lights.

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https://www.cnet.com/google-amp/news/how-much-money-can-you-actually-save-by-turning-off-lights-around-your-house/

Let's say you have a light bulb that's 40 watts, meaning that in one hour, the bulb will use 0.04 kWh. Then, you can use your electricity price -- which you can find on your most recent utility bill -- to figure out how much you'll save for that hour. In the case of the 40-watt bulb, if you pay an electricity rate of 10 cents per kWh, your savings by turning that bulb off for one hour would be 0.4 cents.

Nobody uses a shitty 40-watt bulb. My light bulbs are 4.3-watt LED bulbs. What a dishonest premise.

This is why millennials can't afford anything - leaving lights on, and Starbuck lattes, instead of turning the light off, pulling themselves up by their bootstraps, and making their own lattes.

Wow 10 cents I pay an average of 36 cents

First thing I did when I bought this house was replace every single bulb with an LED

It's been like three years and they're all still working and our electric bill is always really small

What kinda lightbulb is this? It the one in my ceiling fan

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/0/AAZsuhAAC5-0.jpg

Ratchetrockon posted...

What kinda lightbulb is this? It the one in my ceiling fan

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/7/8/0/AAZsuhAAC5-0.jpg

It's LED. Almost every lightbulb in 2022 is LED. You can still technically buy incandescent bulbs if you're a boomer who hates change, but it makes no sense.

Meanwhile airlines are allowed to burn fuel without actually transporting anything and juspt have the planes on idle wasting tons of fuel

Pepys Monster posted...

It's LED. Almost every lightbulb in 2022 is LED. You can still technically buy incandescent bulbs if you're a boomer who hates change, but it makes no sense.

ok thanks for the info! :)

Ratchetrockon posted...

What kinda lightbulb is this?

LED

Questionmarktarius posted...

LED

thank you

apolloooo posted...

Meanwhile airlines are allowed to burn fuel without actually transporting anything and juspt have the planes on idle wasting tons of fuel

The APU doesn't burn a lot of fuel, and there's no viable alternative to it yet.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auxiliary_power_unit

My bright as fuck 60W equivalent light bulbs use less than 10W

What braindead boomer wrote that article

MacadamianNut3 posted...

My bright as fuck 60W equivalent light bulbs use less than 10W

What braindead boomer wrote that article

The weird part is that she's a Millennial. She just used dishonest journalism.

Pepys Monster posted...

She just used dishonest journalism.

Probably recycled an article from the "save the earth" fad in the 70s and 80s, and adjusted for inflation.
Even then, nobody bothered with weak-ass 40W bulbs.

I just bought new bulbs for my bedroom and they be 40 watt.

SweetieBeIle462 posted...

I just bought new bulbs for my bedroom and they be 40 watt.

Where did you even buy ancient incandescent bulbs in 2022?

lol

Pepys Monster posted...

Where did you even buy ancient incandescent bulbs in 2022?

They're in the back corner of Dollar General, by the hammers.

I think at this point that the only reason to use incandescent at all is if you need the heat from them or if you're having a hard time finding an LED that works in cold weather.