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  • Uranium3006@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    hypothetically, no. this assumes you were going to use electric resistive heating instead and the outside temperature when you used them was about when you used the bulbs. overall it’s better to just get efficient bulbs anyways so you aren’t wasting energy in the summer. I delayed replacing my last CFL because of this