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Should I get rid of my standard light bulbs for those curlicue fluorescent ones?
  • To King Lear Re: Efficiency

    Efifciency is a measure of how much of the energy that goes into the bulb is converted to light: it's 5% for incandescents and 15% for CFLs. So, CFLs are 3x as efficient and therefore they use 2/3 less electricity.