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Originally Posted by NoBozo
The cost at WallyMart was $10.95. I'm going to get another one for the living room. I'm going to replace the bulbs that spend the most time ON..  NB |
FYI, I like LED bulbs too, and have been using them with good results.
Some math...
Electricity around here is about 13 cents per kilowatt hour "all in" (meaning, factoring in taxes and all the other costs beyond the raw KwH cost).
A 60 watt bulb is ~1/16th of a kilowatt (duh!), so it costs 1/16th of 12 cents per hour to operate, or about .07 *cents* (less than 1 cent) per hour. Your payback on an LED bulb is about 10 years in normal use (figuring lifespan relative to replacing incandescent bulbs, and the power savings).