I was standing in the entry hall of the Pennsylvania Governor's Residence in Harrisburg today and looked up. The grand chandelier was illuminated with compact florescent bulbs. The color temperature looked great, pretty much like the warm glow of a tungsten bulb only these CF capsules use much less electricity
Say the chandelier has 30 bulbs that used to be 40 watt each that would take 1,200 watts running all the time. A CF replacement bulb takes 4 watts reducing the power needed down to 120 watts. Multiply this by hundreds of bulbs in the mansion that have been recently replaced with CF bulbs, many of which stay on 24/7, and you have power and tax dollars conserved.
The Rendell administration has also recently converted the 40 year old mansion's heating system to a geothermal heat pump, using 500 foot wells on the site to transfer heat from the earth to reduce electrical consumption.
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