 DID YOU KNOW?
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- All CFLs are not created equal. To earn the government's ENERGY STAR mark, a CFL must meet strict energy efficiency standards set by the US Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy, as well as quality and lifetime guidelines.
- SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs last 6 to 10 times longer than standard incandescent bulbs
- SYLVANIA CFLs use 75% less energy than ordinary bulbs
- SYLVANIA makes over 50 different types of ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs
- SYLVANIA Living Spaces ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs save $56 in energy costs over each bulb’s lifetime
- SYLVANIA Living Spaces CFLs provide warmer light and are designed for the spaces in which you live
- In a side by side comparison test, more than half of the participants chose the Living Spaces CFL over the incandescent bulb.
- The SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified micro-mini Twist CFL lasts 12,000 hours or 50% longer than standard CFLs
- If you change five bulbs to SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs you could save more than $150!
- SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified Micro Mini CFL is the smallest CFL on the market – it’s smaller than a traditional incandescent bulb
- SYLVANIA CFLs fit in almost any fixture, indoors and outdoors
- SYLVANIA CFLs are convenient for hard-to-reach and high-use fixtures because of their long life
- SYLVANIA ENERGY STAR qualified CFLs generate 75 percent less heat, cutting home cooling costs
- SYLVANIA CFLs provide the same amount of light (lumens) as standard incandescent bulbs, but use fewer watts (energy)
- SYLVANIA CFLs can prevent more than 400 pounds of greenhouse gas emissions each over their lifetime, the equivalent to burning 200 pounds of coal
- SYLVANIA offers a line of dimmable CFLs. Non-dimmable CFLs should not be used on dimmer switches.
- All CFLs contain a tiny bit of mercury and should be disposed of properly. Visit www.sylvania.com/recycle for more information and options for proper disposal
- Every light changed is a step in the right direction to preserve energy resources and the quality of our environment for this generation and the next. If we changed a bulb for every child in America, each year we would save enough energy to light nearly 2 million homes, $380 million on energy bills, and the equivalent in greenhouse gases to the emissions from more than half a million cars.
- Lighting accounts for nearly 20% of an average home’s electricity bill
- If every American home replaced just one light with an ENERGY STAR, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
- Americans keep about 73 million lights on every day for a period of between four and 12 hours -- with about 28 million of them powered by energy-efficient bulbs, according to the US Department of Energy.
- Incandescent bulbs, invented by Thomas Edison more than 120 years ago, heat a metal filament in a vacuum, but up to 90% of the energy is emitted as heat. CFLs contain a gas that reacts with electricity to create invisible ultraviolet light. When that light hits phosphor inside the bulb, it is converted into visible light.
- Incandescent bulbs as we know them today will begin to phase out beginning in the year 2012.
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