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maryellencarter mentioning that their (American) apartment came with incandescents)
I'm curious: how readily available are different kinds of lightbulb where you live (LED, incandescent, fluorescent, write-in answers), and how do their prices compare with each other? Particularly curious about answers from Americans.
I saw a post going around a while back that used "switching from incandescent to LED lightbulbs" as an example of an individual-level climate action that is nice but supererogatory and you shouldn't beat yourself up if you can't afford it, and I was like ???.
'Who...who can't afford LED lightbulbs?' I thought. 'Like, I get the general point about supererogation and bailing-a-boat-with-a-teaspoon and from-each-according-to-their-ability and all that, but *LED lightbulbs*? Is this some kind of, like, Extreme Vimes Boot Theory? You know LED bulbs cost about three bucks a pop and pay for themselves in 2 - 6 months from reduced electric bills, right? They...*do* cost ~three bucks a pop and pay for themselves within months where you live, right? Right??'
(this has been percolating for a while, but the final impetus was
I'm curious: how readily available are different kinds of lightbulb where you live (LED, incandescent, fluorescent, write-in answers), and how do their prices compare with each other? Particularly curious about answers from Americans.
I saw a post going around a while back that used "switching from incandescent to LED lightbulbs" as an example of an individual-level climate action that is nice but supererogatory and you shouldn't beat yourself up if you can't afford it, and I was like ???.
'Who...who can't afford LED lightbulbs?' I thought. 'Like, I get the general point about supererogation and bailing-a-boat-with-a-teaspoon and from-each-according-to-their-ability and all that, but *LED lightbulbs*? Is this some kind of, like, Extreme Vimes Boot Theory? You know LED bulbs cost about three bucks a pop and pay for themselves in 2 - 6 months from reduced electric bills, right? They...*do* cost ~three bucks a pop and pay for themselves within months where you live, right? Right??'
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Date: 2021-05-04 02:01 pm (UTC)Nice. American dollars are larger than Canadian dollars, but that's still a lot cheaper. Maybe I'll pick up a pack or two of lightbulbs next time I'm in New York.
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>>I have to have plenty of light and obviously be running my workstation, on-peak hours or not.
Because of the big rise in work-from-home, Ontario recently instituted a policy where households can choose between time-of-use billing and tiered billing (X cents/kWh for the first Y kWh each month, Z cents/kWh thereafter).
When I heard that, I got out the electric bills from 2020. I did the math, and we'd have saved about $40 if we'd been on tiered pricing for 2020 (well, 2020 usage but current rates, in an effort to model the future), despite our best efforts at load-shifting.
But I kind of like that our incentives are aligned with the people trying not to have to fire up the backup natural-gas-powered plants (base load is mostly hydro and some nuclear around here, pretty low-carbon), and I expect more load-shifting opportunities in the future as we (probably) electrify our heating and dryer and maybe even our car. I'm thinking I won't bring tiered pricing up with my family.