Here's My Glass of Lemonade...

Yesterday, I realized I'd been frying every day under the wattage of the fluorescent lights overhead in my office. Given their output, running eight at a time seems a bit excessive. As it is, I spend most of my time peering into the luminous screen of my computer monitor, so do I really need all this light? I decided to disconnect four of the bulbs overhead and achieved, to my satisfaction, the perfect level of light for my needs. And at the end of the day I explained what I had done to our building maintenance man with a request that he not replace the bulbs.


And with that simple act, I halved the energy used to light my office every day. Following the same assumptions from my previous post, that's an overall savings of roughly 225 kWh/yr. And to think, in the same five minutes or so it took someone to commit an act of larceny, I was able to do something positive. I'm gonna take a sip of my lemonade and chalk one up for the good guys...