18Seconds.org is campaign Yahoo recently launched in conjunction with Lawrence Bender, Oscar-winning producer of the documentary "An Inconvenient Truth," devoted to informing the world about the energy savings associated with switching from a normal light bulb to a compact fluorescent lamp. The campaign is based on the idea that is only takes 18 seconds to change a regular light bulb to an energy saving compact fluorescent light bulb. Lawrence Bender authored a guest post on the Yahoo! corporate blog which stated:
"If every American swapped just one bulb, it would save more than $8 billion in energy costs, prevent the burning of 30 billion pounds of coal, and keep the equivalent of two million cars worth of greenhouse gas emissions from entering the atmosphere."
Those are some pretty eye opening numbers. At the same time it is inspiring to hear that everyone can pitch in to help save energy and ultimately the planet. The 18Seconds.org web site offers a mashup which places the current compact florescent lamp purchase numbers by geographic location on a Yahoo map. Currently, Arkansas is the leading energy saving state and Bellingham, Washington is the leading energy saving city in the United States. For additional information about 18Seconds.org, check out the video below.
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Hi Frank, I am using a energy saving bulb on the roof, and I think it's as important for Chinese enviroment as for American. I hope more and more Chinese citizens would start to use energy saving bulbs...
Posted by: Nan | Saturday, March 03, 2007 at 06:38 AM
Compact fluorescents are a great idea, but bear in mind that incandescents can be innovative, too. A recent Slashdot story showed new incandescents are being developed that are on par with CFLs for energy efficiency.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/26/1916211
So what? So, compact fluorescents contain mercury, and you’re not allowed to just toss that in the garbage.
Posted by: Trogdor | Wednesday, March 14, 2007 at 05:24 PM
These bulbs are weak and they only save energy if you leave them on. They take a lot of energy to start. So if you turn the lights on and off to save energy, then you're using more energy than if you had incadesants.
This is so stupid. Al Gore freaks everyone out, making them believe polar bears drown without ice, the sun has little to do with global warming, and that humans are the cause of global warming. Well if the global temperature is rising at less than 1 degree a century, how much warmer will it be in 1000 years....10+1=10 degrees.
Everyone pick up your garbage, save as much energy as you want but stop being so stupid!
Orrin
Posted by: Orrin | Monday, March 19, 2007 at 04:50 PM
Oh, by the way, only 500,000 out of 1 billion chinese have electricity. So, I don't think that will make a big dent in overall conservation efforts.
Orrin
Posted by: Orrin | Tuesday, March 20, 2007 at 12:50 PM