Comments on: Lights out (Day 25)… http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/ making one change every day to greenify my life (and hopefully not being too smug about it) Sun, 13 May 2012 15:55:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: CiN http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-12437 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 19:59:56 +0000 http://greenasathistle.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-12437 Cats see better in the dark anyway. :)

]]> By: gmpicket http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-269 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 14:02:52 +0000 http://greenasathistle.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-269 Hmmm….what about replacing those lights with CFL’s or LED’s which use less energy?

]]> By: Lori V. http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-268 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 13:44:04 +0000 http://greenasathistle.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-268 Ummm, Vanessa…. it’s Day 26… are you there? Are you too tired to go on greening? We’re all waiting for Day 26! :-) Pretty please?

]]> By: Shawn http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-264 Mon, 26 Mar 2007 02:11:18 +0000 http://greenasathistle.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-264 Lights left on make me bonkers. Always have, I imagine always will. I bet even if they someday used no power at all it would still bother me. Hrmm… maybe I’m just old and cranky.

I googled it not long ago and “they” say that if the fluorescent light is going to be off for more than 15 minutes it is more efficient to turn it off. Presumably less than 10 minutes uses more energy in the off/on process than it would just staying on. See how I naturally rounded that down to 10 minutes =)

]]> By: Lori V. http://greenasathistle.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-263 Sun, 25 Mar 2007 22:17:32 +0000 http://greenasathistle.wordpress.com/2007/03/25/lights-out-day-25/#comment-263 My kids still don’t get this totally, although they are better after their recent “lesson” I imposed. Their bathroom has one of those lightstrips into which eight(!!!) bulbs will fit. Every time they left those lights on when they left the bathroom for any length of time (long enough that I would discover it), I removed one bulb, until they had just one bulb left for a couple of days. Sadly, the non-offender (almost-16-year-old daughter) was the one that paid the highest price, so at that point I replaced all eight with CFLs.

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