5th June was Environment Day!!
On this occasion, let me give something that can help save electrical energy (and some money too 
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Here is a computation table that you can use for saving electrical energy. It shows how you can save electrical energy (and money) by replacing tube-lights with CFLs
We are replacing all the tube lights in our building. We are replacing them as and when they go down and some half way mark is already reached. Savings are pretty good. About 100 Rs. per month !!!
In this computation, I have considered electricity charges at Rs. 4 per unit. Actually it is more and is increasing further in the near future. I have given 15 W and 18 W CFL for reference.
Feel free to ask for the worksheet file. Send me a mail to sudhanwa.com at gmail.com email id.
Here is the computation:
| COST COMPARISON BETWEEN TUBE-LIGHTS AND CFL |
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Standard Tube-light |
CFL |
CFL |
| Power consumption |
50 (40+10 for choke) W |
15 W |
18 W |
| Usage per day |
10 hrs |
10 Hrs |
10 Hrs |
| Per day Energy consumption(watt-hr) |
500 |
150 |
180 |
| Consumption per year |
182500 |
54750 |
65700 |
| No. of units per year |
182.5 |
54.75 |
65.7 |
| Charges @ Rs. 4 per unit |
730 |
219 |
262.8 |
| Charges for 3 years |
2190 |
657 |
788.4 |
| Additional costs in 3 years (1 CFL per year costing Rs. 120) |
0 |
360 |
360 |
| Total cost for 3 years |
2190 |
1017 |
1148.4 |
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| Savings in 3 years by using CFL |
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1173 |
1041.6 |
| Saving per year |
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391 |
347.2 |
| Saving per day |
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1.07 |
0.95 |
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Savings of about 1 rupee per CFL per day !!! |
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So, replace your tubelights wherever possible. Use CFL.
Disclaimer: Light given by CFL may not be as good as that of tube-light for reading purposes. However, for places like staircases, parkings where reading is not a requirement, CFL are best suited!!
Here is the final one:
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Here is the second one for you. This is a bit difficult compared to the first one. It has some control codes also.
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Just for the sake of clue, this is what the first line is:
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Who says only humans can be poets? Some computer poems I had received quite some time back for your debugging…
As usual, author is unknown, so don’t know whom to give credit.
Here it is:
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Try to understand the computer lingo. Decode it to plain English..
Will give you the plain text in a few days.
Some kind of encryption?? Not really…
Just for the sake of clue, this is what the first line is:
Waka waka bang splat tick tick hash,
After so many months, I went to Bhosari some days back to install PC of my friend.
He asked one of his workers on the shop floor to get some coffee from some hotel nearby.
After some time, he got some coffee. Rather some liquid that had some traces of coffee and taste and smell of some “Punjabi Masala” sabji!!!
That reminded of the old days some 15-20 years back when I used to go to Bhosari very often. In those days, there were no good hotels in Bhosari and you could not get some good coffee anywhere in Bhosari.
Well, the same thing still continues 
It is said that if you eat food for a week on some “Tapri” in Bhosari, you will not have any stomach problems in all your life. You can eat anything and anywhere in the world and still remain absolutely fit !!