How does using fluorescent light bulbs instead of incandescent bulbs help conserve energy?
More energy goes into making light, less energy into making heat.
No, in case you like an incandescent you like an incandescent. Compact fluorescents are oftentimes spiral wound glass and have a power supply interior the backside. that's many times particularly glaring. some incandescents would be marked power saving because of the fact they're 80W instead of 100W. those are nice.
They save energy by not being turned on. if never manufactured, the savings is monumental, but not realized. I guess we look at candlepower or lumens instead of just Watts. Electrically excited clouds of ionizing halides gives more lumens per watt than a white hot tungsten slivery filament.
Fluorescent lights are more energy efficient because they use less energy to produce the same amount of light than an incandescent light bulb. In the case of the fluorescent light bulb, light is produced by exciting atoms (the mercury gas), which then gives off UV rays, which strikes the glass of the tube, which is covered in a sort-of glow in the dark paint. The UV rays make the paint glow, which is how they light-up. The incandescent light bulbs force electrons through tungsten filament, which resists the flow of electrons. This resistance causes immense heat, and makes the filament literally glow white hot. Fluorescent light bulbs do not get hot like incandescent light bulbs, and that is the main reason they are more efficient. They better engineered to produce light, not the heat that comes with incandescent lights.
