From the fate of energy-saving light bulbs to see the United States environmental protection

At present, many people in China are shouting for environmental protection and shouting green. However, many people estimate that they will not really act, or that they will only act on one day of the year. The core reason for this problem is that everyone thinks that it is necessary to be green and environmentally friendly. It is a matter of reducing the standard of living.

The two days in the United States have profoundly realized that their environmental protection actions are everywhere. What is the specific situation?

Let us look at the fate of energy-saving lamps in the United States is really "green = asceticism"?

Most of China uses traditional incandescent lamps that were invented by Edison more than 100 years ago. However, its energy efficiency is only 5%, which means that when a light bulb emits light, only 5% of the electric energy it consumes is used for light emission, and the remaining 95% is converted into heat energy and is wasted. In the United States, the problem is actually even more serious. The United States uses twice as much electricity per person as Europe, and is six times the world average.

In the global environment of rising oil prices and the increasingly prominent global environmental problems, this issue has been taken seriously by the U.S. government and the public. On October 5 last year, the United States Environmental Protection Agency's Director Stephen L. Johnson and Minister of Energy Samuel Bodman, in collaboration with more than half of the governors of the United States, announced the launch of the "Energy Star - Changing a Light, Changing the World" campaign. The purpose is to promote energy-saving light bulbs throughout the United States.

According to statistics, 20% of households in the United States consume electricity for lighting. After the U.S. has realized the replacement of light bulbs, from 2012 to 2030, the U.S. will spend 40 billion U.S. dollars on the energy consumption of electric lamps, which will mean the construction of 14 fewer thermal power plants and the reduction of at least 51 million tons per year. carbon emission.

Not long ago, the U.S. Congress passed the "Energy Law Amendment," and the U.S. plans to phase out incandescent bulbs that have been used for more than one hundred years and switch to new energy-saving and environmental-friendly lamps in the next 12 years.

In the U.S., the action is even faster because it is a matter that will not affect the quality of life but also benefit the people. Although the price of an energy-saving light bulb is more expensive than that of an incandescent light bulb, its service life and electricity cost savings are much higher than those of traditional incandescent light bulbs. Therefore, the public has voluntarily replaced the energy-saving light bulbs after they have realized that they have brought real benefits to them. Shortly after the promulgation of the new "Energy Law Amendment" in the United States, major supermarkets and businesses in the United States began to accept the sponsorship of some organizations and institutions to promote cheap energy-saving light bulbs.

So now in the United States, as long as you spend $20 in the supermarket, you will receive a free energy-saving light bulb. Even if you want to buy it is very cheap, 100W energy-saving lamps to buy one get one to sell 0.99 US dollars, this price is one-tenth of China's similar products.