"Hey Mr. Green: I like to turn off all the lights when I'm not using them, but my husband says it wastes more energy to turn fluorescent lights off and on than it does to just leave them on. Who's right?"
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Your links are off. When I try to get to the podcast on the energy used turning on and off compact flourescents I get the one on whether or not to buy a new fridge. This all looks like great info but it's frustrating not to get to the answer I'm looking for. Keep up the good work.
Posted by: Frances | March 18, 2008 at 06:53 PM
March 20-still getting fridge info instead of the lightbulb question!
Posted by: r. bumsted | March 20, 2008 at 01:18 PM
You can go to the link below to get the answer that goes wit this; I just fixed the date. The link above is still off:
http://www.sierraclub.org/radio/stationmanagers/files/mrgreen/2008-03-17-AskMrGreen.mp3
Posted by: grace | August 04, 2008 at 04:13 PM