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Many people still use standard incandescent light bulbs. A product which was introduced 120 years ago, converts only 5% of energy to light and lasts only 1000 hours.

Tip: Change all your light bulbs to energy saving ones.

No matter if you use CFLs or try LEDs, both will consume much less energy than incandescent light bulbs. Also note that incandescent light bulbs will be probably banned soon (at least in EU and Australia).

We also don’t want to hear excuses that you cannot afford buy them because they are expensive. Detailed calculation on our eco forum tells completely something different, just have a look.

Some might complain that CFLs contain mercury which is also harmful to the environment, that is true and you’ll need to recycle old CFLs properly. But mercury emitted from power plants during generating electricity to feed your incandescent light bulbs could be even higher as you can see from the diagram below.

There are various shapes of CFL light bulbs including candle light shapes so nobody can complain that there isn’t their type available. Also various light colours can be purchased. So just choose which colour you like the most.