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According to a new report published by the International Energy Agency (IEA), a global switch to
efficient lighting systems would trim the world's electricity bill by
nearly one-tenth. The carbon dioxide emissions saved by such a switch
would, it concludes, dwarf cuts so far achieved by adopting wind and
solar power. Wow. According to Paul Waide, a senior policy analyst with
the IEA and one of the report's authors, "19% of global electricity
generation is taken for lighting -- that's more than is produced by
hydro or nuclear stations, and about the same that's produced from
natural gas." For the individual TreeHugger, the report concludes that
the easiest, most obvious switch to make is from incandescent bulbs to
compact fluorescent systems, and to watch out for the LED revolution,
just around the lighting corner. ::BBC News via ::Gristmill
Image couresty David Hobby at Strobist.com
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