On 1/20/2014 6:19 PM, Hank wrote:
On 1/20/2014 4:40 PM, amdx wrote:
On 1/20/2014 3:18 PM, F.O.A.D. wrote:
On 1/20/14, 4:14 PM, Hank wrote:
On 1/20/2014 3:40 PM, amdx wrote:
On 1/20/2014 2:17 PM, Hank wrote:
On 1/20/2014 1:09 PM, amdx wrote:

I think your numbers are slightly exaggerated, but not a lot.
Payback
should certainly be less than one your for most people.

I don't know how you arrived at this number but I'm in agreement with
your conclusion

Math.

Where did I lose you.

I used the cost of a kWh as 13 cents.
I assumed the new bulbs use about 10% as much energy as the old style.
If you saved $50, you must have spend $55 before and $5 now.
Mikek

Awesome.


All this higher math...I need to find my college abacus.

You're not that old, you probably had a TI-30.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TI-30 Note the Red LEDs.

Mikek


Nah. He's older than that. He had one of those K&E slide rules.

Hey. I have one of those too. In fact it's sitting right here on my
desk. I was fooling around with it a couple of days ago.