Monday, February 19, 2007

Rarely as simple as you'd like...

On Radio 4 today I heard a discussion about energy saving light bulbs versus normal ones. How about this for a great argument:

1) Normal bulbs get hot and have a heating effect in your home.
2) Energy saving bulbs don't get very hot and so their heating effect is much less.
3) Your thermostatically controlled heating system compensates for this lack of heating by turning the heating on earlier thereby wiping out the energy savings due to the bulbs.

It's beautiful!!

3 comments:

Blaine Downie said...

aren't you a little young to be listening to Radio 4??

Mark Robins said...

I just LOOK young :-)

Paul D-P said...

I know of people who have been listening to radio4 for years. I still listen, but mainly to the comedies. Very very funny, go on, dare you to try one.