Sentences with phrase «replacing incandescent»

Energy Efficient - saves significant money over its lifetime compared to the expense of replacing incandescent bulbs - pays for itself

In the first sub-section, you can take a variety of actions, like replacing incandescent bulbs with CFLs, in three categories (home / office, transportation or carbon offsets) and preview how those will decrease your energy consumption with a carbon calculator.

To this end, many people have embraced «the low hanging fruit» i.e., bringing their own bags to the grocery stores, replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs, etc..

Boston's first official skyscraper, the Marriott Custom House Tower, was in need of a makeover, and it received one in the form of replacing its incandescent fixtures with LED fixtures, beautifying the building while using one third the energy.

For example, you can shave a few dollars off your bills by replacing incandescent lightbulbs with LEDs, but if you want to cut your bills more significantly you'll have to replace the appliances and systems that use the most energy.

There was nothing about people replacing incandescent lights with fluorescents or LED's.

But we shouldn't fool ourselves into thinking that swapping our current car for a Prius or replacing our incandescent lights with energy - efficient fluorescent bulbs will strike a meaningful blow against climate change.

Les Robertson in Texas has set up a nonprofit to develop activities on what it can do to implement a local version of Plan B, such as upgrading low - income housing to make it more energy efficient, including replacing incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescents.

To minimize energy use, the resort pioneered the use of low - voltage in the Pacific region by replacing incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs and low voltage LED lighting throughout the main buildings including dining areas, bar, lounge and reception and all the accommodation.

Now the rebirth For some time now, LEDs (Light Emitting Diodes) have been replacing incandescent bulbs as original equipment on new vehicles.

Replacing incandescent light bulbs with LEDs and unplugging chargers / electronics when they aren't in use can also add up to big resource savings and extra cash in your pocket.

The recommendations, in addition to flying less and wasting 25 percent less food, include: carpooling or telecommuting once a week (75 million metric tons of CO2 equivalent (CO2e) saved by 2020, if adopted by all Americans); maintaining your car or truck, such as keeping tires properly inflated (45 million metric tons of CO2e); cutting the time spent idling in a vehicle in half (40 million metric tons of CO2e); better insulation at home (85 million metric tons of CO2e); programmable thermostats set higher (80 million metric tons of CO2e); reducing electricity demand from appliances that are «off,» so - called phantom demand (70 million metric tons CO2e); using hot water more efficiently, such as washing clothes in colder water (65 million metric tons of CO2e); buying EnergyStar appliances when old ones wear out (55 million metric tons CO2e); replacing incandescent lightbulbs with compact fluorescents (30 million metric tons CO2e); eating chicken instead of beef two days a week (105 million metric tons of CO2e); increased recycling of paper, plastics and metals (105 million metric tons of CO2e); «responsible» consumption, such as buying less bottled water (60 million metric tons CO2e).

For larger and more powerful LEDs to succeed in replacing incandescent and fluorescent bulbs in home and industrial lighting, however, they must be designed to better keep their cool.

A new study from University of Michigan researchers recommends replacing all incandescent and halogen light bulbs in your home now with compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) or LEDs.

Be aware that commonly - used CFL bulbs (which have replaced incandescent light bulbs as a more energy - efficient option) contain mercury and have special procedures to follow if one breaks.

Homeowners looking to save electricity costs should replace all their incandescent light bulbs with LED - based lights instead of installing a small solar photovoltaic system, a report by J.P. Morgan shows.

They started with an off - the - shelf Zeiss microscope and replaced its incandescent light source with a laser.

But even Young believes that LEDs and OLEDs will likely coexist, serving different functions: LEDs will likely replace incandescents whereas OLEDs might light the offices of the future in the form of glowing ceiling panels or windows that light up as the sun sets.

In fact, researchers at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, N.Y., estimate that replacing incandescents with LEDs could save $ 1.83 trillion in energy costs globally over the next decade and eliminate the need for 280 1,000 - megawatt power plants.

Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.

The government solution to replace incandescent bulbs is to regulate them out of the marketplace and forcefully restrict consumer choice.

Data are available on the website for each state, providing a convenient way of monitoring local progress in replacing incandescents.

Compact flourescents (conservatively) use a third as much power; were you to replace all incandescents with compact flourescents you'd reduce the residential power consumption by 6 %, or total power consumption by 2 - 3 %.

On the East Coast, the New Jersey legislature is on the verge of requiring state government buildings to replace all incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents by 2010 as part of a broader statewide effort to promote the shift to more - efficient lighting.

If all bulbs that IKEA has sold replaced incandescent light bulbs, they would save enough energy to power 750,000 households for a year.

Brazil, hit by a nationwide electricity shortage in 2000 — 02, responded with an ambitious program to replace incandescents with CFLs.

Philips, «Philips Calls for Action to Replace Incandescent Bulbs with Energy Saving Lamps,» press release (Brussels: 7 December 2006); European Lamp Companies Federation, «European Lamp Industry Commits to a Government Shift to Energy Efficient Lighting in the Home,» press release (Brussels: 1 March 2007).

Replace incandescents with longer lasting CFL light bulbs or LED lights.

Personally, I decided a long time ago to only replace my incandescent bulbs with CFLs as they burn out.

Whole Foods Market has replaced incandescent lights in its seafood departments at various stores with EFO.

Easy: Replace incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs.

Replace incandescent lights with compact fluorescent lights.

Typical programs include free CFL or LED light bulbs to replace incandescent bulbs, and discounts or rebates for installing energy - efficient HVAC equipment or programmable thermostats.

Meanwhile, to reduce energy costs at its 578,000 - square - foot Ballston Common Mall in Arlington, Va., Forest City replaced incandescent lights with more energy efficient fluorescent lighting, dropping electricity usage there by 17 percent to 14.7 kilowatt hours.

I'm working on replacing all incandescents with LEDs as well — nice to know that I might not ever have to change some light bulbs again.

Not exact matches

Full - spectrum light - emitting diodes, or LEDs, are becoming widespread — and the race is on to develop white - light versions to replace Edison's century - old incandescent bulb

Such LED technology has been in electronics like calculators for decades, but remains too expensive to replace cheap incandescents.

Some days it is a bit embarrassing (like when he carries around CFL bulbs and will replace them in the local coffee place or a restaurant that uses less efficient incandescent bulbs, but without asking permission to do so), but he inspires me and makes me want to be a better inhabitant of this earth.

When researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana - Champaign replaced a fast - food restaurant's fluorescent lights and rock - and - roll soundtrack with softer incandescent bulbs and mellow jazz, study participants ate 18 percent less food.

Before reinstalling the gauge cluster, we removed the dim incandescent bulbs so we could replace them with LED bulbs.

Light Art to Become More Energy Efficient — With the European Union banning low - wattage incandescent lightbulbs last year, curators and collectors of light - based artworks like those by Felix Gonzalez - Torres and Jason Rhoades are looking to the late artists» wishes to determine how to properly replace and refit sculptures that use outdated lightbulbs, writes the Art Newspaper's Julia Halperin.

I am taking more time to communicate with my elected officials and, believe it or not, I still had that pesky final incandescent bulb that is now replaced with a CFL.

I have replaced all of our incandescent bulbs with CFLs.

Included in the package is a 7W compact fluorescent lightbulb (CFL), which replaces a 40 - 60W incandescent, and the lamp can be used both as a pendant (above, left) and a table lamp (above, right).

I've replaced CFLs with low - wattage incandescents in those applications.

We've replaced all our lightbulbs with CFL's except for two — we can't seem to find a CFL brand that has the same shape the garage door opener expects, so that's our one remaining incandescent, and we have a halogen lamp in our living room that just keeps going, so we haven't replaced it.

For perspective, the energy saved by replacing a 100 - watt incandescent bulb with an equivalent CFL over its lifetime is sufficient to drive a Toyota Prius hybrid car from New York to San Francisco.

Per the EPA, if each incandescent bulb purchased were replaced instead with an energy efficient CFL bulb purchase, it would reduce CO2 emissions by 0.0382 metric tonnes.

In 2007, China — working with the Global Environment Facility — announced a plan to replace all its incandescents with more - efficient lighting within a decade.

The 2007 energy bill placed stringent efficiency requirements on incandescent bulbs in an attempt to phase them out beginning in 2012 and replace them with more expensive but more energy - efficient bulbs, the most popular being compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs).