Do halogen light bulbs consume as much energy as incandescent light bulbs? How do they compare with low energy bulbs?
A tungsten-halogen lamp is a refinement of incandescent technology – very compact in size, but with better light quality. It has similar light output to a regular incandescent bulb although it uses up to 40 percent less power. Although tungsten-halogen lamps are more expensive to buy, they last two to five times longer than incandescent light bulbs. The risk with halogen lamps is that we tend to use many more lamps in place of a single traditional light bulb, and this will obviously increase our overall energy consumption. Clearly, from an energy efficiency perspective, low energy light bulbs would beat halogen bulbs by far, as they consume between a quarter and a half the energy of halogen. Plus its life is around double that of halogen.
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