{"id":439,"date":"2010-12-15T15:38:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:38:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oregonstate.edu\/sustainability\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2010-12-15T15:38:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-15T22:38:24","slug":"increasing-efficiency-one-lamp-at-a-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/2010\/12\/15\/increasing-efficiency-one-lamp-at-a-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Improving efficiency, one lamp at a time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Incandescent lamps are the poster child of energy waste; their glare disguises the fact that 90% of the energy consumed by an incandescent lamp\u00a0 is wasted as heat.\u00a0 With the help of six GEO 300 &#8211; Sustainability for the Common Good students, Sustainability Office staff changed over 100 incandescent lamps to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs).\u00a0 CFLs use 75% less energy than an equivalent light output incandescent and last ten times as long.\u00a0 The work performed during this three hour event was estimated to save nearly 96,500 kWh (about $5,308 in electricity costs) each year.\u00a0 Why use staff time to change lightbulbs?\u00a0 The current custodial contract states that custodians will only replace like-for-like, so when an incandescent lamp burns out, another incandescent goes in its place.\u00a0 By proactively changing incandescent lamps to CFLs, we&#8217;re ensuring that a CFL will stay in the fixture in perpetuity.<\/p>\n<p>Removing functional incandescents does present us with a problem: what to do with the inefficient but still good lamps?\u00a0 If you have ideas, let us know.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-440\" title=\"box o' incandescents\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/files\/2010\/12\/box-o-incandescents-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"box o' incandescents\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Incandescent lamps are the poster child of energy waste; their glare disguises the fact that 90% of the energy consumed by an incandescent lamp\u00a0 is wasted as heat.\u00a0 With the help of six GEO 300 &#8211; Sustainability for the Common Good students, Sustainability Office staff changed over 100 incandescent lamps to energy-efficient compact fluorescent lamps [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1292103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/ecologue\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}