A while back, I became a "friend" of the Department of Defense on Facebook. They put out a lot of cool info every day and so, from time to time, I thought I would share it with all of you.
American Forces Press Service
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla., April 22, 2009 – All 64 major Air Force bases in the United States are participating in a campaign to change out incandescent bulbs with energy-efficient compact fluorescent bulbs, or CFLs.
In the past year, beginning with Earth Day 2008, Air Force participants have changed out more than 228,000 bulbs. This will save millions of pounds of greenhouse gases and enough energy to power 3,841 homes for a year, officials said. The Air Force will save $7.5 million over the lifetime of the bulbs.
And that's not the only way that our armed forces are going green. In fact, they have a whole section of their web site devoted to it. Check it out.
Pretty cool, huh? Well, that is if you think that climate change is not a stinkin' commie liberal plot designed to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids. If you are someone who thinks this way, what runs through your head when you see all of these green initiatives from the DoD? Heck, I'm not even convinced that man made climate change is happening with a hundred percent certainty yet I still think it's great.
Hats off to our brave men and women in the armed forces who, once again, are going above and beyond the call of duty.
3 comments:
I use CFLs in my house whenever practical. In several locations, I tried using CFLs, but switched back because I just couldn't get them to work right.
It has been my experience that CFLs don't usually last any longer than incandescent lights. In fact, I've had several (maybe 30% ?) that have had significantly shorter lives than incandescents. That's a higher impact on the environment than plain old incandescents, not to mention my wallet. (They're more complicated and use more materials.)
Final word: Mercury
There is nothing wrong with saving money and being efficient and that should be the focus - educating people about energy consumption.
It's called good stewardship.
AGW is false. Pollution* is a different story. Green extremist are too stupid to figure out the difference.
*CO2 is not a pollutant no matter how much people want to think so.
Nothing at all wrong with conserving, especially taxpayer money, whether you're a skeptic or not. Good on them, I say. I use CFLs in our home where possible, because I'd like to see my energy bills go down. I just don't piously shroud myself in the "green" mantle while I'm doing it.
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