Sentence examples for bulb burning from inspiring English sources

But unless it was the bulb burning brightly right before it died, Wells pitched successfully if not completely effectively late last season.

An ancient Babylonian, he calculated, needed to work more than forty-one hours to acquire enough lamp oil to provide a thousand lumen-hours of light the equivalent of a seventy-five-watt incandescent bulb burning for about an hour.

An ancient Babylonian, he calculated, needed to work more than forty-one hours to acquire enough lamp oil to provide a thousand lumen-hours of light — the equivalent of a seventy-five-watt incandescent bulb burning for about an hour.

The energy consumed in manufacturing that amount of paper not to mention the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere in the process is equivalent a 100-watt light bulb burning for a month.Pundits reckon over 15 trillion pieces of paper are printed annually around the world a figure that is expected to grow 30% over the next ten years.

The Volt, for instance, is supposed to go about five miles on a kilowatt-hour, a unit of energy that sells for about 11 cents at retail and is sufficient to keep a 100-watt light bulb burning for 10 hours.

To put those figures in perspective, recycling one aluminum can saves enough energy to keep a 100-watt bulb burning for almost four hours or run your television for three hours.

A household could save almost that much by turning off eight 100-watt bulbs that burn 12 hours a day -- if it has that many big bulbs burning that long, and if the residents don't mind going to sleep at sunset.

Or you can go large, like the residents of Trinity Close in Burnham-on-Sea, who have almost 100,000 bulbs burning.

The human race, Griffith has estimated, currently consumes energy at an average rate of approximately sixteen trillion watts, or sixteen terawatts — the equivalent of a hundred and sixty billion hundred-watt light bulbs burning all the time.

When the project began, Griffith told me, his own average rate of energy consumption was at least eighteen thousand watts — the equivalent of keeping a hundred and eighty hundred-watt light bulbs burning all the time.

The light in the apartment was muted, no overhead bulbs burning and all the lamps shedding their subdued radiance downward, as if in deference to the great man's presence.