How to Save Energy in Bedroom?

[mathewrobert]

Check out some interesting energy saving tips that can be implemented in bedrooms -

•Draft Guards – Using draft guards on the bedroom doors will ensure neither warm nor cold air escapes from the gap under the door.
•Ceiling Fans – In winter reversible ceiling fans should be used which will help in keeping the air warm.
•Eco-friendly Materials – Use eco-friendly such as wooden doors, eco-friendly decoration, recycle material.
•Use of natural light and heat.
•Set the thermostat to optimal temperature.
•Energy saving bulbs such as the CFL can be used.

Get more energy saving ideas for better future.

[StweenyA]

What?

You speak about eco-friendly "such as wooden doors, and recyclable material", then you go and suggest CFL?
How are they eco-friendly, and why should you worry about eco-friendly doors, decorations, and recyclable material if you're not worried about using CFL?

[Pierre Monteux]

CFL is the sorriest excuse I've seen for an energy efficient "safe" lightbulb.

First, the hight cost compared to the real life. I've never seen a CFL last as long as claimed.

Second, theres the fact that it contains mercury, and we have no good disposal solution other than the city dump.

Third, many of them are ghastly and (for me and probably others) cause headaches.

Fourth, I wish I could find the article, but somebody had done the math on using an incandacent vs cfl, with the extra heat needed by a furnace added in. (And the calculation showed more c02 being released due to the extra work of a furnace.) Since incandacents heat a room, you can have a lower thermostat, and the room heats as it is used a bit. If you have proper windows, the light isn't on as much when the AC is running in the summer.


Personally, i'd prefer a lightbulb that can only kill me if I remove it and touch the exposed socket. I've had 3 CFL's break in the short time I used them. 2 of them the glass broke (great, mercury exposure). The last one, the base pulled apart exposing the electronics, including the step up transformer.


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