During the West Coast energy crisis of 2000 and 2001, utilities from Seattle to Los Angeles were turning to their customers in homes and businesses to help lower peak demands for electricity. Out of this crisis a seemingly small solution was born that had the potential to create a large, positive impact – adoption of the unassuming compact fluorescent light bulb, or CFL. One household adopting just five CFLs had the potential to save an ave

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