Insights on inside lights…priceless!

When I converse with people, sometimes I’m so taken aback by the insights shared.

Take, as an example, the conversation I had with a friend recently who noticed there was only one set (a pair, in this instance) of fluorescent lights installed in the lighting provision located in the kitchen ceiling which can actually accommodate a total of two pair or four fluorescent lights in all. This friend was suggesting, though oh so subtly, that the one lighting fixture in the ceiling that was devoid of such fluorescent tubes, should have installed in that fixture, fluorescent lights also. My response was that the fluorescent lights that were in the one used fixture provided a sufficient amount of light and that I did not need to add any additional fluorescent lights. I mean, that’s the very reason why that one fixture was devoid of any fluorescent lights.

Interestingly, discussion then turned to the bathroom. Maybe it was because the bathroom had just undergone a major remodeling. The overhead fluorescent lighting fixture in the bathroom was completely removed and pot lighting using Light-Emitting-Diode (LED) lights was installed instead.

The conversation then moved to the fluorescent lights themselves, my friend then proceeding to explain to me that fluorescent lights are inefficient. I’m assuming my friend meant compared to LED lighting. If so, I’ll buy that.

So, after hearing this I reasoned that if fluorescent lights are inefficient as my friend pointed out, why would I want to add more inefficiency to the existing inefficient lighting that I have in the kitchen currently? If I did that, I’d have an even more inefficient lighting situation when it comes to lighting in the kitchen and I know I certainly don’t want that. That just means more waste, I rationalized.

If anything, my friend should have been trying to convince me to do the same with the kitchen lighting that I had done to the lighting in the bathroom. Which, thanks to our having this talk, I now plan to do.

Insights on inside lights…priceless! And, sometimes such happens when you’re not expecting it. This was one of those times.

Incidentally, and just for the record, more efficient indoor lighting can cut down on electricity usage, which is reflected on the bill and that translates into less wasted energy. And, with less energy wasted, the required fuel burned necessary to generate the electricity to power the lights would potentially be less also. And, by virtue of that, there would be potentially less negative impact on air.

— Alan Kandel

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