Anyway:
Do I have CF bulbs in my house?
- Yes because electricity is more expensive than natural gas and the bulbs last longer.
Will I be replacing my dim, slow to warm up CF chandelier and pot light bulbs with incandescent bulbs?
- Not until the CF bulbs start and only if they haven't gotten a whole lot better in the mean time.
Will I shed a tear for the environment when I do so?
- Not for a second. I heat my house for the majority of the months when it's dark enough to need the lights on more than a couple hours a day.
A similar argument can be successfully made for on-demand hot water heaters versus tank heaters. I thought pretty hard about whether to replace my tank heater with an on-demand heater (which is more efficient in a heat loss sense) but since that heat loss is into the house in my cold-in-the-summer basement, I'm not going to do it. Maybe once the heater starts to die, I'll think about it but the on-demand systems will have to be better in terms of working with low flow rates than they are now.
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