According to the United States Department of Energy (DOE), in its recent press release , if every 60W light bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the winning bulb, the nation would save energy equal to $3.9 billion per year -and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions. This is no small statement.
According to the United States Department of Energy (DOE), in its recent press release , if every 60W light bulb in the U.S. was replaced with the winning bulb, the nation would save energy equal to $3.9 billion per year -and avoid 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions. This is no small statement.
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Consider, for example, that a 2007 study published by Science Daily, that ranked coal plants in the U.S, reported that each of the top 5 coal burning plants in the U.S. reportedly emits about 20 million metric tons of carbon emissions each year. So replacing the 60W light bulb throughout the U.S. is like retiring one of our nation's largest coal plants? That's a lot of energy efficiency!
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