Re: Anyone moved to LED Lighting?

[salty@xxxxxxx]

On Mon, 28 Dec 2009 15:07:42 -0800, David Nebenzahl
<nobody@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>On 12/27/2009 9:13 PM Don Klipstein spake thus:
>
>> In <4b36f5e8$0$23825$822641b3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, D. Nebenzahl wrote:
>>
>>> That doesn't *necessarily* translate to the same amount of
>>> reduction in electric power plant generation. Think about it: it's
>>> not as if there are giant rheostats on coal-fired generators that
>>> the electric company can use to calibrate their generating capacity
>>> to meet the load. They can basically take a generating unit
>>> off-line or put it on-line.
>>
>> They do better than that - they can "crank down" generating units.
>
>Still somewhat of a fallacy; as someone else (Dave Houston) here pointed
>out, the power plants that utilities most easily can switch on- and
>off-line are natural-gas fired ones, which are less polluting and emit
>less carbon than coal-fired plants.
>
>Plus he mentioned that the *net* result of a total switchover to CFLs
>for residential use would result in, at most, something like a 2% energy
>savings.
>

2% would be HUGE.