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- Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb (CFL)…
One Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb lasts up to 10 years.
A CFL can save you up to $100 of the life of the bulb. Figure out how much you could save by switching your light bulbs to CFLS. Use this Energy Savings Calculator.
One Compact Fluorescent Lightbulb uses up to 75% less energy than a traditional lightbulb.
If every home in America replaced just one traditional incandescent bulb with a CFL, it would prevent the release of greenhouse gas emissions equivalent to taking 800,000 automobiles of the road, or looked at another way, it would save enough electricity to light 3 million homes for a year.
One CFL contains approximately 4mg of mercury, here are some good tips on cleaning up a broken bulbsand recycling Compact Fluorescent Light bulbs that have burned out.
