Why You Don't Get What You Pay For

Shocking Facts on Light Output and Wattage

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Foot-candles: Get a birthday cake candle. Get a ruler. Stick the candle on one end of the ruler. Light the candle. Turn out the lights. One foot-candle of light is the amount of light that birthday cake candle generates one foot away.
A LUMEN is a unit of measurement of light. A LUMEN is equal to one foot-candle of light falling on one square foot of area.
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If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.

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One must consume with a responsible understanding of short and long term results.
Even though most electronic items in the home today are technologically up to date,
most of us are still using and designing houses or businesses that
consume energy with technology dating back to 1928.

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