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Stephen: Correct, if your insulation is crap, the hot air sitting at the ceiling would just drift up. But by using the fan, you cause it to circulate again, so it has a chance of warming the room before it gets absorbed upward.

Is that clockwise standing underneath the fan looking up at it?

And timers to limit the amount their on

Kirk- timers is a great one for sure!

LED maybe, but I did some calculations a while ago that indicate the lumens/Watt for some specific LEDs is less than CFL (may have changed now). So that was a concern. But in my city and hopefully yours, we are required to take CFLs to e-waste recycling centers. They are prohibited from being sent to landfills. From a cost, lumens/Watt and bulb... See More life standpoint they are superior to incandescent.

With the long life of LEDs, they make a lot of sense in applications where the bulbs are hard to change too.

Sorry for the delayed response. I do think LED offers the best solution going forward. Greener technologies are all more expensive up front but LED's are I believe a better alternative. For home use, people should try both alternatives in specific applications. LED's for instance make a big impact as spot lights and ceiling lights. ... See MoreApplications that now use very heat intensive bulbs.

Thank you for contributing, this is an important topic because it's one of the major ways the general public is getting involved in green alternatives and hopefully leads to more interests in other areas like pesticide alternatives etc.

Yep...Already did that a couple of years ago.

Here in India every home user does so. I wonder why people in US UK don't do !!!! Save Energy.

The western world is spoiled by luxury. They never had a chance to learn to do such 'little' extra things.

I'm open to get that conversation going - it would be interesting to build a blog post on that topic - interested to collaborate on one?

MW: Warm walls only make warm rooms if the walls are insulated, otherwise the heat blowing onto the walls from the registers will move to the outside and you get little benefit inside. Most homes with forced air registers will benefit from reflectors to direct the air inside the room.