Check back in the late summer for our fall 2001 Change-Out schedule. Halogen torchiere lamps burn at temperatures up to 1,100 degrees Fahrenheit, which is hot enough to cook an egg or boil water. Customers turned in more than 500 halogen torchieres during the two Great Torchiere Change-Outs in 1999. Keeping your home bright is easy with safe, energy-efficient compact fluorescent lighting. Here's a look at how compact fluorescent technology helps consumers see the light.
American homes contain more than two billion light fixtures.
Incandescent and halogen bulbs are the most commonly used light sources in American homes. Because they produce light only as a by-product of heat, up to 90 percent of the electricity they consume is wasted. If consumers in the U.S. switched to fixtures and bulbs with the Energy Star designation, we could save 70 billion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year. This is hot enough to cook an egg or boil water. Compact fluorescent torchiere lamps burn at between 100 F and 200 F. Two-thirds of colleges and universities in the U.S., including the University of Puget Sound and Pacific Lutheran University, have banned halogen torchieres in dorms.