Shedding light on energy-efficient options
October 22, 2008 at 6:12 am 1 comment
Tuesday I came home and crawled into my bed to read my texts. I turned on my bedside light, expecting a nice, soft glow, but was shocked when a bright, white light blinded me! After I recovered from my blindness, I remembered that Tridelta was making moves in our attempt to go green. While I was in class that day, Tridelta’s handyman changed out all of the light bulbs in the house for more energy and cost-efficient compact fluorescent light bulbs.
According to How Stuff Works, a normal light bulb only lasts about 750 to 1,000 hours in normal use and it also radiates a significant amount of infrared heat. Since the purpose of a light bulb is to generate light, the heat is wasted energy.
Compact fluorescent light bulbs save electricity and save the environment too. Since fluorescent bulbs produce about 75 percent less heat, they are safer to operate and they can cut energy costs associate with home cooling, a CBS News report stated.
While the new light bulbs were accepted because of their environmental benefits, many of the girls complained because they are too harsh and bright compared to traditional incandescent bulbs. Personally, I think most of the girls were unhappy with the new lights because they shed light on all of their little flaws that other lights might have hidden.
“It’s embarrassing but I didn’t realize how many freckles I had developed due to tanning till a fluorescent light was installed over my mirror,” freshman Caitlin Duffy said. “Maybe installing the new lights will have positive affects on the environment and future skin cancer rates.”
Compact fluorescent light bulbs are also more cost efficient than traditional bulbs. For instance, it is estimated that you can save about $30 or more in electricity costs over each bulbs life time.
According to CBS News report, the average U.S. household has 45 light bulbs; replacing that number of 75-watt incandescent bulbs with fluorescent light bulbs would save $180 per year. Since the sorority house is estimated to be at least 15 times the size of an average household, Theta Alpha can look to save about $2,700 per year.
“Saving money on our energy bill will allow us to spend money on other parts of the house that need more work going green,” Theta Alpha’s house mom Sandy “Mizzay” Anderson said. “Our house is over 100-years-old and it costs money to make an old house energy efficient.”
The women of Theta Alpha will have to get used to seeing their face in a brighter, more energy and cost-efficient light because we set a goal of going green, and we are motivated to meet our goal.
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1. rabeam | October 28, 2008 at 3:31 pm
Excellent research and links on this post.
This week, I’m focusing on concise writing. Below I have edited two paragraphs of your post to tighten the writing. Compare them with the original to see where you could have tightened your writing. I’ve also fixed mechanical errors in those paragraphs.
Tuesday I came home and crawled into bed to read . I turned on my bedside light, expecting a nice, soft glow but was shocked when a bright, white light blinded me! After I recovered from my blindness, I remembered that Tridelta was making changes in our attempt to go green. While I was in class that day, Tridelta’s handyman swapped all of the incandescent bulbs in the house for more energy- and cost-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs.
According to How Stuff Works, a normal light bulb usually lasts about 750 to 1,000 hours and radiates a significant amount of infrared heat. Since the purpose of a light bulb is to generate light, the heat is wasted energy.
Also, it’s positive EFFECTS. Effects is almost always a noun.
3 (a photo, but not yours I assume)