Saturday, December 19, 2009

Brian is going green!

So, I keep hearing in the media that I should buy some screw in fluorescent “energy efficient” lamps for my house. I happened to be in a lighting store the other day (O.K. I guess that isn't too hard to believe since I work in one) and saw some of these on the shelf. Sure enough they did say, “screw in fluorescent”, and “energy saving”. So I decided I would do my part for the environment and bought a couple to try out…


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Here they are after screwing them in my front room fixture.
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I’m not sure they will save me much energy but I do feel closer to nature now that the sun is inside my front room!


For reference to understand the pictures below here are some figures:


Light is commonly measured in foot candles (fc). Some common light levels are:


An overcast day will produce an intensity of around 1,000 fc

An operating table will be around 1,000 fc

General, Open offices 50 fc or 30 fc for offices where a lot of computer work is performed

Warehouse 10-30 fc

Pro Basketball court 125 - 300 fc

Hotel Front Desk 50 fc

Hotel lobby 10 fc.


My meter can't read over 1,000 fc so I had to be a few feet away to get a reading under 1,000.


Light level on the couch.



Bradley taking a reading near the floor. It would have been higher if he would have held it level.

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