Actually, you could try touching base with National Rural
Electric Cooperative Association. NRECA provides research to its
members, and well may have looked at this topic, albeit from a purchase
perspective for demand-side management - not a waste generation rate.
http://www.nreca.org/. In fact, a quick look at NRECA's site shows its
members have some CFL replacement programs.
Good luck,
Anne Peters
Gracestone, Inc.
Boulder, CO
303.494.4934 vox
303.494.4880 fax
David Biddle wrote:
Re: [GreenYes] CFL Generation Rates
I would imagine
you’re not going to find meaningful data on this issue for the
population in question. Probably the most appropriate thing to do,
especially with a small population like that, would be to do a survey
of a random sample of households and then develop a model using the
appropriate lifecycle assumptions. You could also talk to your local
utility. They may be trying to figure out the same issue.
Two years ago you might have been able to just model the problem based
on the “one unit per household” phenomenon, but now folks I talk to are
doing major re-lamping in their houses. So much depends on
socio-economic status and literacy levels though...
--
David Biddle, Executive Director
<http://www.gpcrc.com>
Greater Philadelphia Commercial Recycling Council
P.O. Box 4037
Philadelphia, PA 19118
215-247-3090 (desk)
215-432-8225 (cell)
on 4/11/08 3:20 PM, Craig Barry at craig@no.address wrote:
Does anyone have any generation rates for
CFLs from rural communities based on population?
Trying to gauge how many CFLs might be generated out of a rural
community with some 22,000 residents.
TIA and TGIF
Craig Barry
Executive
Director
craig@no.address
Environmental Resource Center <http://www.ercsv.org/>
471 North Washington Ave
PO Box 819, Ketchum, Idaho 83340
208.726.4333 w 208.726.1531 f
208.720.5661 m
www.ercsv.org <http://www.ercsv.org>
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