The family is using compact fluorescent light bulbs and hanging its laundry outside to dry.
Light emitting diodes, or LEDs, could work nicely as replacements for incandescent and compact fluorescent light bulbs.
The best-known green-home technology must surely be the compact-fluorescent light bulb, the very icon of green living.
This happened in Japan, where low-energy fluorescent light now accounts for more than 95% of residential lighting.
And finally, we received a flood of e-mail about my story last week on compact fluorescent light bulbs.
The potential to replace incandescent and fluorescent light with LED is just huge.
We could see small patches of fluorescent light shining through the night.
The major use of terbium is in compact fluorescent light bulbs (the other main one is in phosphors for TV screens).
They seem to be saying that terbium should have run out last year: so that means no more compact fluorescent light bulbs ever.
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For civilian purposes, these materials are crucial for high-tech items such as computers and televisions as well as green items such as batteries and fluorescent light bulbs.
The Environmental Protection Agency and some large business, including Wal-Mart, are aggressively promoting the sale of compact fluorescent light bulbs as a way to save energy and fight global warming.
Since one of the diamond's selling points was its ability to change hues from cotton-candy pink to fuchsia under fluorescent light, a bulb was positioned over its case to flicker on and off.
And in one of the coolest art projects we came across this week, Chinese artist Wang Yuyang used thousands of compact fluorescent light bulbs to create a replica of the Moon.
In addition to the rusty metal chair on which he was placed, with his hands still cuffed, it had a fluorescent light whose flickering beams penetrated the black cloth that covered his eyes.
It was also a big week for lighting news as we learned that compact fluorescent light bulbs emit potentially harmful UV radiation -- another good reason to make the switch to LEDs.
We have seen a very strong response from customers for our newest version, Acrich 2, in light bulb, fluorescent tubes and panels.
It will be the first on the market that reaches that level of efficiency and functions across a normal range of temperatures and is capable of consistently producing the same amount of warm white colored light as comparable fluorescent tubes.
Another innovation: square tiles of light that could replace fluorescent office ceiling lighting.
This means sealing air leaks around windows and doors, properly insulating attics, replacing standard light bulbs with compact fluorescent lamps and giving your heating and cooling systems an annual checkup to ensure they're running properly.
Fluorescent bulbs emit a pallid, bleached light that is okay for hallways and porches, but which fails to flatter and provide a good quality of light for living rooms.
This could involve you changing your light fittings from incandescent to fluorescent, or even changing your gas and electric service providers, and will help you to save money on the daily, weekly and annual costs of your household heating.
In September, 1986, after several months of sharing a cell with another hostage, Anderson was, for no apparent reason, returned to solitary confinement, this time in a six-by-six-foot cell, with no windows, and light from only a flickering fluorescent lamp in an outside corridor.
As I drove through Central Park at the wheel of my convertible, I felt myself bathed in a flickering light, like that of a fluorescent bulb emitting a series of livid, blinking flashes before it turns on fully.
But artificial light, whether of the incandescent, fluorescent or LED variety, contains a different mixture of frequencies from that put out by the sun.
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Nasi Lemak Antarabangsa has a legion of devoted followers, many of whom turn up early (the place opens at 7.45 p.m. and closes at 11 a.m.) and sit patiently at plastic-covered tables, waiting for the management to shed light on matters by switching on the fluorescent tubes overhead.
Made from a flexible polymer film suffused with fluorescent particles, the prototypes catch only a specific wavelength of light and shoot it to an array of sensors that surround the sheet's edge.
The 60W is the latest old-fashioned light bulb to be switched off in favour of the fluorescent lamps, energy-saving halogen bulbs and LED lights.
Fluorescent and LED lights use nearly two-thirds less energy than regular light bulbs, are significantly brighter, and, according to Consumer Reports, will last nearly 50-times longer than incandescent bulbs.
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