No ‘power’ in bulbs

Correspondent Barry Walker raises some very good arguments against installing energy-saving light bulbs.

Some time ago, we converted to LED throughout the house, reducing from 1100 watts to 75 watts overall, a massive reduction.

'Brilliant you may say”, but not really, because at $25 a pop it would take about 10 years to break even – if they perform as promised – and we live that long.

In the meantime, the price of power supplied to our home has increased twice. The first increase wiping out any savings envisaged, and the second leaving us worse off than when we converted.

Here is my advice Barry: Keep using your incandescent bulbs, pay the bill and bite the bullet – you will never win mate. The mission statement on the boardroom wall of all power companies should read: 'We have the power, let's shock these suckers”.

Kevin Molloy, Omokoroa.

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