Energy Saving Lightbulbs for 49p each; save £9/bulb per year in electricity costs

angusjgy

You need to be quick with your info - apologies for duplicating part of eneryman's post.

thommo

Anyone wanting R63 or R80 reflectors i get mine from here

http://www.ultimastore.co.uk/products.asp?cat=41


R63's are 9 watt/2700k which after trying some others that gave a too cold and white light,gives a softer light.And because they are 9 watt they don't stick out of the fixture as much as 11 watt reflecters do.
My delivery took 3 days.

barak

Money_Troll wrote: »

... but... I have heard that you're best leaving them on as turning them on and off drastically can reduce their life.

I've been using them for 10 years and that does not appear to be true. At 49p they should be at the top of everyone's shopping list.

Roseylee

I've bought my energy saving light bulbs from IKEA. We have spotlights which take R50 bulbs and IKEA was the first place I saw which did an energy saving version for £1.49 each.

They do smaller bulbs than the original bulkier ones and have both thick and thin screw fittings.

The Croydon store also has a recycling bin for broken but intact bulbs and also a separate one for batteries.

More info:
http://www.ikea.com
Lighting > Lighting accessories > Bulbs

charlieheard

Great idea to use CFLs to replace ordinary bulbs, but don't replace the old bulbs till they blow if you want to be even greener.

angusjgy

Big Thanks to MSE Martin

I have just purchased 9 bulbs from John Lewis for £4.41, this will take my house to over 80% energy saving bulbs!

Still a good quantity on the shelves (at JL - Sheffield - LG Floor), but as my earlier post they stock the popular sizes for this price and the more unusual at up to £7.49.

fatheralice

Just to give this thread a slight reality check......as reported in the Sunday Telegraph 14/4/07........

Don't believe ALLL the hype about the "green-ness" of energey saving lightbulbs - ie what is going to happen to all the old filament bulbs and fixtures, plus the new pollution from expired energy saving bulbs? People need to understand the whole picture, not just some trendy fad...


Poisonous light bulbs

A foretaste of the delights we can expect in 2009, when the EU makes it compulsory for us to use planet-saving, low-energy light bulbs (CFLs, or Compact Fluorescent Lamps), comes from the website of Bar Harbour, a small town in Maine. Last month Brandy Bridges was inserting a CFL in her seven-year-old daughter's bedroom, to save on energy bills, when the bulb fell onto the carpet and broke.

She rang the shop it came from, asking how to dispose of it, She was told that, because it contained mercury, she should ring the Poison Control hotline. They directed her to the Department of Environmental Protection, which immediately sent an official to take mercury readings. Around the carpet they were so high that they instructed her not to clean it up herself but to contact a local contractor, Clean Harbour Environmental Services.

The firm inspected the bedroom and quoted her a minimum of $2,000 dollars to clean it up and remove the carpet. A month later the child's bedroom is still sealed off, while Mrs Bridges scrapes together the $2,000 and money to replace the carpet.

Since this became a local cause célèbre, the DEP has changed its tune, saying that it is perfectly okay to clean up spilt mercury with sticky tape. Mrs Bridges, having first been told how dangerous that mercury was, is not convinced.

And Brussels still has to work out how to dispose of all those billions of CFLs it wants to make compulsory in the EU from 2009, since its Restriction on Hazardous Substances directive last year banned the disposal of mercury into landfill.

MarkyMarkD

charlieheard wrote: »

Great idea to use CFLs to replace ordinary bulbs, but don't replace the old bulbs till they blow if you want to be even greener.

I don't think that argument washes, charlie. "Old" bulbs use 6 or 8 or 10 times as much electricity as CFLs. The amount of energy wasted by keeping an "old" bulb going until it pops is way more than that incurred by replacing the "old" bulb with a new CFL.

You can keep the "old" bulbs knocking around for those locations in the house where you can't/won't use CFLs or to put back into the sockets when you move house!

Bud2351

jammiev wrote: »

hi, i saw an advert today saying they are half price (forever) at tesco!
:beer:

Bud2351: Correct about Tesco and with my daughter working there I can add staff disount. I must confess I have been buying mine in Morrisons for quite a while now.

adaadat

veedubjai wrote: »

I think the UK & the EU countries should start introducing legislatiion complete banning of old filament light bulbs. The EU do cover a large geographical area but this should not mean other counties not to introduce measures reducing light pollution. Just look at the globe at night & see for yourself. They may be cost effective to produce in the short term but running cost in the long term will impact global warming.

I believe increasing taxes to counteract carbon footprint will not make much difference as the extra cost will be impose elsewhere. But by banning with fee penalties, the public will get the message, not to waste energy. Small changes in lifestyle can just as well make a difference.

Just to add another slight reality check for everyone who views much of that written in the above messages as the truth:

Those who think fitting 'energy-saving' bulbs will contribute to reducing your 'carbon footprint' completely mis-understands how electricity is produced.

As we are all human beings and, hence, unpredictable in our actions, those who produce the electricity we consume and those who set government policy determining how much electricity is available for us to use - and therefore how many consumer goods (many being electrical) we can buy and use - cannot risk a shortage in electricity supply. There must always be enough electricity available if I want to switch something on or anyone else, in the growing population, wants to switch something on, especially as more and more goods are becoming electrical/electronic in nature and will continue to do so and, so, will require, collectively, greater wattages of power. It is irrelevant to the production of electricity and use of fossil fuels whether you use 'energy-saving' bulbs, or not, or you switch lights off when you aren't in the room, as the amount of electricity being produced will remain constant. If we all switch to 'energy-saving' bulbs, not one fewer watt of power will be produced and, hence, not one fewer tonnes of coal or cubic metres of gas will be consumed and, hence, not one fewer tonnes of CO2 will be produced.

Then, there is the issue of the poor quality light these bulbs produce - blue-ish white and much harsher on the eye and the fact that they don't light-up immediately when switched on, unlike 'normal' bulbs. They shouldn't be used for main ceiling lights as they don't come on immediately when you flick the switch as you enter a room and could be dangerous in certain circumstances. Use them, only, for lamps, etc., but don't use them outside as they are more susceptible to the cold.

I do use these bulbs, but only to save myself money, not to 'save the planet'.

Don't get me started on the absurdity of wind power and solar power, in their current forms. They're beautiful ideas but woefully uneconomic at the moment without massive hidden subsidies.

It's understandable why most people are ignorant of the facts regarding these issues as we are dreadfully let down by our far-left media and its slavish devotion to anything the green lobby says.

I, also, urge you to have a read of the Sunday Telegraph, especially Christopher Bookers' page. Discovering almost everything the media has lead you to believe as the truth is, in fact, a lie, will make you very angry.

Yours,

A keen money-saver, only where it makes sense. I hope this has been of some help.