Environmental Benefits of LED Lighting

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By changing one light bulb in your home you could help to save the environment. The fact is that by changing one of your regular incandescent light bulbs to a LED light, you can help to protect the environment and save money. LED lights last 10 times longer than a regular incandescent bulb and are four times more efficient. LED lighting uses nearly 80 percent less energy than an incandescent bulb does, which translates to financial savings for you and a cleaner environment.

Though currently more expensive to purchase up front, LED lighting fixtures will save you in long-term operational costs. LED home lighting only uses one third of the energy that an incandescent bulb uses. An 18-watt LED light can replace a 75-watt incandescent bulb; in the lifetime of that 18-watt LED light (which is ten times longer than the incandescent) you will save 570 kilowatts of energy. This would be a rough savings of nearly $50 on your energy bill. A LED light easily pays for itself in its lifetime.

Regular light bulbs put carbon dioxide, sulfur oxide and nuclear waste into the landfills and atmosphere. By changing your light bulbs to low energy LED home lighting, one single bulb keeps one half ton of carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through its life cycle. It will also keep the sulfur oxide and nuclear waste to a minimum in the landfills and environment. By switching one bulb in your home and in every home throughout the United States, the environmental concerns being discussed with fervency these past couple of years can begin to be addressed on a global scale.

It is possible that if every house in the United States switched to LED lights, 90 current power plants could retire, an amazing fact especially considering that more power plants are being planned and constructed.

Staying conscious about the environment and being ‘environmentally friendly’ doesn’t mean you have to change the way you live completely, although if you did ‘go green’ entirely, it certainly would have an amazing impact on the earth. You can increase your energy efficiency with small and simple changes that will actually benefit you as well as the environment. Saving money with LED lights in your home makes going ‘green’ an easier pill to swallow, especially because you won’t be able to tell the difference in the lighting.

LED light benefits expand to areas other than home lighting as well. Considering LED lights during the Christmas holiday is also a smart energy conservation idea. LED lights are cool and energy efficient during the time of year when energy use rises significantly. LED lanterns and LED flashlights are great for camping and hunting as well as a vital part of any home emergency kit. With these LED implementations your family will not need to worries about batteries running dead in the middle of use; LED flashlights and LED lanterns use less energy meaning your standard batteries will last considerably longer.

LED lighting is being billed as the best long-term solution for your home and outdoor lighting needs. Its environmental benefits and energy efficiency make it worthwhile for your household and your world.