Comment Re:LED Lightbulbs Re:user error (Score 1) 710
Do light bulbs use up *that much* of your electric bill? Huh. I thought that A/C or heating, plus refrigerator and other appliances took up 90% of your utility bill.
A/C: Incandescents produce heat, the AC has to work harder to remove that heat. Thus the energy savings should be multiplied by approximately 2,5 if the AC is running.
Heating: Heating electricity use can be lowered by using insulation and even moved from the electricity bill to the natual gas bill by using a gas heater. Not all places where people live need heating.
Refrigerator: Modern efficient refrigerators use far less power than lightbulbs use. Let's take a huge 215+89l refrigerator/freezer combo, class A+++: the Bosch KGE36MW40.
It uses approximately 149 kWh a year. If you have 10 bulbs of 50 watts running 3 hours a day that uses (10*50*3*365)/1000=547,5 kWh.