the light bulb police are coming

[nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Dave Houston)]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/14/business/14light.html?ref=science

The article uses figures for the percentage of electricity used for lighting
that are about 7.5 times the figures given by DOE web sites. Either the DOE
is incompetent or the people hoping to profit by forcing everyone to switch
to CFLs are cutting their figures from whole cloth.

I've cited this page before.

    http://www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/recs/recs2001/enduse2001/enduse2001.html

Table 2 indicates that lighting represents 8.8% of 2001 US residential
electricity use. From other DOE statistics, residences use about 1/3 of
total electricity with industry and commercial sites using approximately the
same 1/3 fractions. That means residential lighting uses 8.8/3 or 2.933% of
total electricity, not the 22% claimed in the article.

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