Coop Lighting & Venting

[patandchickens]

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Canada is banning the sale of incandescent lightbulbs by 2012.

Well, we'll see what happens when 2012 rolls around. I am quite totally confident that in 2013 I will still be able to walk into most any hardware or farm store in Canada and buy an incandescent bulb.

For now, for this topic, I would just say that heat is not always a wasteful byproduct. Like for people with cold chickens

(That said, I don't use supplemental heat myself -- but if I had, like, large combed bantams in a small coop that did not stay all that much warmer than the outside air, I sure might, sometimes)

JMHO,

Pat

 

[mirecipes]

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Canada is banning the sale of incandescent lightbulbs by 2012. Australia will no longer sell them by 2010.

The heat produced that you mention is just a waste of electricity. I'm sure the USA will follow the green path as well & stop production & sale of these dinosaur bulbs.

Compact fluorescent bulbs (CFLs), use about 75 per cent less electricity than older incandescent bulbs. An average house would save about $60 per year by switching to CFL's.

The florescent lights can trigger seizures in folks like me when they aren't working properly.
I try to use artificial light as little as possible during the day..But just in case I have about 20 of the good old incandescent lightbulbs stored in my utility room..