Bulb Comparisons for Fun
A 60 watt bulb run for 6 hours per day x 7 days x 52 weeks uses 131 kw/hrs.
Our Glamocell equivalent = a 3 watt led run for 6 hours per day x 7 days x 52 weeks uses only 6.5 kw/hrs.
To put this in energy terms:
It is the energy required to consume:
75.14 fast-food meals 1500 cal meals (burger/fries/drink)
Or Glamocell’s equivalent would only consume 3.72 fast-food meals 1500 cal meals (burger/fries/drink)
or for a person weighing 140 lbs it is the equivalent of walking up 35,500 flights of stairs
or for a person weighing 140 lbs it is the equivalent of walking up 1,761 flights of stairs
Or for that person to hike out the length of the Grand Canyon 64.41 times
Or hike out the length of the Grand Canyon 3.196 times
It’s the average use of electricity consumed by a person in the following countries
| USA | 0.12 | 0.006 |
|---|---|---|
| Europe | 0.30 | 0.015 |
| Africa | 3.44 | 0.171 |
| Far East | 1.60 | 0.08 |
It also equates to the energy required:
To burn: 4.26 pieces of fire wood 15 pounds in weight each containing 20% moisture
or 0.211 pieces of fire wood 15 pounds in weight each 20 containing 20% moisture
To burn: 37.27 pounds of coal
or 1.84 pounds of coal
To use 4.473 therms of natural gas
or 0.22 therms of natural gas
To boil away 55.29 gallons of water in your kettle
or Boil away 2.743 gallons of water in your kettle
or to melt a block of ice weighing 3121 pounds
or melt a block of ice weighting 154.9 pounds
In chemical terms it is like producing:
226 pounds of CO2
or producing 11.21 pounds of CO2
which is equal to the volume of 1,960,000 ping pong balls
or the volume of 97,270 ping pong balls
or to produce 0.53 pounds of SO2, the cause of acid rain
or 0.026 pounds of SO2, the cause of acid rain
which is equivalent in volume to 4703 ping pong balls
or 233.4 ping pong balls
or having to use 55.29 gallons of water extracted from our rivers to a cool power plant in the power station needed to produce electricity
Or just 2.74 gallons of water in the case of the Glamocell’s solution