If your inner Al Gore is worried that your Christmas lights might not be green enough, you're apparently not alone. At area Home Depots there's been such a run on energy-saving LED (light-emitting- diode) holiday lights that some stores are sold out. That's good news to the Electric Power Research Institute, which estimates that if every "seasonal mini-light" in America were replaced with a light-emitting-diode (LED), it would add up to a $250 million savings and a 400,000-ton reduction in carbon emissions.
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It turns out some Christmas trees are more green than others. Communities seeking to conserve energy are increasingly switching their high-voltage holiday displays to more efficient LED lighting systems.
I would like to touch on those absolutely wonderful energy- saving light bulbs that we have been seeing more and more these days. Actually, what they are is a fluorescent tube coiled up to look something like a light bulb. These little wonders are the best thing since the invention of sliced bread. Believe it or not, they use only one quarter of the electric power of an incandescent, standard-type light bulb, and get this, they last sometimes as long as nine years.
Evansville drivers may have noticed that traffic lights are brighter than in the past. That's because the city has changed all standard traffic lights in city-owned intersections to light- emitting diodes. But the change is about more than visibility and brightness, according to local officials.
balow@wvgazette.com Hal Hilbish doesn't normally like to use high-pressure sodium bulbs in his architectural lighting designs. The yellowish glow they cast on objects is not very flattering, he says.
Simple energy-saving techniques such as shutting off lights when not in use and turning down the heat or air conditioning have saved the city school district more than $5.6 million in a long-term program to conserve energy, according to an organization called Energy Education. The schools' success in cutting energy costs by 22 percent over the last 91/2 years will be recognized with an award during tonight's School Board meeting.
Love to deck the halls with old-fashioned incandescent lights? Don't worry: Holiday lights are exempt from the new energy-saving standards for light bulbs that will take effect next year. From outdoor icicle lights hanging from eaves to strands of twinkle lights wrapped around a Christmas tree, lights used for holiday decorating are considered "specialty bulbs" and aren't affected by the standards being phased in starting in January.
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