This is an energy efficiency based site. The target is to better inform the reader of more efficient methods of living. For one thing, there are the light bulbs we use in our homes. Many people use incandescent bulbs, but there is a more efficient bulb. It is the Compact Fluorescent Light bulb, or CFL.

CFLs use only about 70 percent of the electricity that an incandescent bulb uses. Besides the more efficient advantage, replacing incandescent bulbs with CFLs would also save about 180 dollars a year, about 8 to 12 times their cost. A single CFL could outlive up to 13 incandescent bulbs, and besides that, 90 percent of the energy in an incandescent bulb becomes wasted heat, and is hazardous to touch. A CFL is four to six times more efficient than an incandescent bulb overall.

Even more efficient than the CFL is the LED. LEDs would be the perfect solution, if not for the fact that not many people like to get LEDs, because to replace a 60-watt incandescent bulb with an LED, one bulb might cost 75 dollars. If one compared the two at the price of a general 10 cent rate, an LED would save about eleven dollars after 60,000 hours. There is a definite price disadvantage, but LEDs are more efficient than the two most common household light bulbs, and contain no mercury.