Maurice J. Scott Inc.

These days, more and more people are becoming interested in cutting down on their energy consumption, and not just because of a personal preference for frugal living, but also for the greater good of helping protect the planet and it’s limited resources.  When it comes to cooling, ceiling fans are quite inexpensive to operate compared with air conditioning, and often provide similar comfort.  Believe it or not, air conditioning accounts for one sixth of our nation’s annual energy consumption.  In sharp contrast, an efficiently designed ceiling fan consumes about the same energy as one typical incandescent light bulb.  That’s less than ten percent of the energy required to power a medium sized air conditioner! The air flows that fans create don’t really cool people down.  Rather, it’s the fan’s breeze that causes evaporation of moisture off a persons skin that cools the person.  This effect can make the person feel as much as nine degrees cooler.  So, even on those very hot days when air conditioning is called for, using a ceiling fan too can enable the thermostat to be kept nine degrees higher –resulting in significant energy savings Ceiling fans that have earned the ENERGY STAR

from the United States Environmental Protection Agency are especially efficient. ENERGY STAR qualified ceiling fans must move air twenty percent more efficiently than non-rated fans.  Those qualified fans with light kits use approximately seventy-five percent less total energy than conventional fan/light units.  And at the same time, they give off around seventy-five percent less heat.  Light kits that feature compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) only need replacing roughly once every seven years.

Here's something to think about: if only half of all the ceiling fans in the United States were ENERGY STAR qualified, the reduction in pollution would exceed that produced by more than one million cars per year!