In the United States, a ban on the popular incandescent bulbs Bashny.Net

Fluorescent lights (they lit the gas, and not wire, as in a conventional lamp) use 25-30% less electricity and will last ten times longer, say the experts of the Council. As an example they put the results of replacing thousands of light bulbs in the building of the government of Massachusetts, where the consumption for electricity was less than 15 thousand dollars a year. Moreover, carbon dioxide emissions, which is considered one of the culprits of the greenhouse effect and global warming, was reduced in this case to 56 tons due to lower capacity power plants that run on coal and fuel oil.



However, on a global scale the effect of the local replacement of light bulbs of Edison's fluorescent analogue will not be as significant. For example, moving the province of Ontario on new lighting technology, Canadians can only one percent (or six million tons per year) to reduce emissions of "greenhouse gases" canadian power plants. Nevertheless, the legislative initiative carries important meaning, showing the readiness of authorities to rely on voluntary reductions in greenhouse emissions, activating a fight with them.



However, for very poor families, the transition to a new type of electric lamps can be not so preferred. If an ordinary light bulb costs nearly half a dollar, and then fluorescent will cost five times as much.

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