Adam@Home by Rob Harrell for December 05, 2009
December 04, 2009
December 06, 2009
Transcript:
Laura: What are you doing? Adam: To offset the energy use of the lights. I promised the kids I wouldn't drive to the coffee shop. Laura: That's nice... Adam: Um...honey. Laura: I'm not giving you a ride. Adam: Curses! Foiled again!
comYics over 14 years ago
Tie up them fancy running shoes and jog on over. Providing the weather is fair enough.
alondra over 14 years ago
The walk will do you good Adam.
milano99 over 14 years ago
Susan, if you’re asking a legit question, the standard Xmas light (the ones that look like night-light bulbs) are 4 watts each. So do the math – a 50-light string is 200 watts.
Jiblet_VT over 14 years ago
A 50-light string of incandescent midget lights uses only about 34 watts. That’s not a whole lot of energy consumed over the typical month of use per year.
If they are used 6 hours a day, that’s 186 hours for the whole month. A single string then uses about 6.3 kWh. At the national average electric rate of $0.12/kWh, it costs $0.76 for the season per string.