Quote (shwknight @ Jan 8 2010 02:17pm)
Try emailing MythBusters at Discovery.com, they did a segment on power consumtion of light to see if it was better to leave the lights on when you are just gonna leave the room for a minute and come right back. They proved it was better to turn them off because the power consumtion when you turn them on was negligible.
the variable they ignored is the fact that turning a bulb on and off causes it to
burn out quicker. no idea if this happens to florescents as well.