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Steve Thomas, Renovator of Nations, is back with a brand-new Planet Green Holiday Highlights. We all like to decorate our homes during the Holiday season with sparkling, radiant Christmas lights. But what of energy consumption? Steve Thomas suggests LED lights to reduce to your electricity usage by ninety percent. That's a lot of percent!
How do LED lights pull off this miracle of energy reduction? Well, according to Darren Pai of the Hawaiian Electric Co., these new LED lights only use 4.3 watts per strand. Conventional mini-bulbs can gulp down 33-34 watts per strand and bigger bulbs may guzzle from 500 to 1,000 watts per strand. That means, you could use the LED lights 232 times before they ate the same energy as one usage of the 1,000 watt strands.
Heck, you could positively coat your house with 232 strings of LED lights in order to outshine your neighbor's 1,000 watt strings. I'd assume having that many strings plugged into a large tangle of surge protectors would be dangerous. It would also be wasteful, ungreen and not really in the Christmas spirit. But perchance to dream, right?
Less is usually more anyways. As in the art world, it is cunning subtly that rules the day, not excessive flashiness, therefore, decorate with minimalist LED flair and make every light matter.
More Planet Green Holiday Highlights:
Send Holiday Gifts with Eco-friendly Materials (Video)
Decorate Your Home with Solar Powered Christmas Lights (Video)
Solve Wrapping Woes with Bill Nye (Video)
Want to create the perfect eco-nest? Get the nuts and bolts (pun intended!) on building green on Planet Green TV's Renovation Nation.
