Thousands of poor souls will gather for the 91st annual Rockefeller Christmas Tree Lighting. Remember to bring a tube sock filled with pennies with you, if you unfortunately, find yourself in midtown
Do you really want to be stuck in the middle of potential Darwin Award winners and their children who should be forced to play in traffic? So once again, I'm giving native New Yorkers a gentle reminder - watch last year's lighting here.
This year, Alicia Keys, Jimmie Allen, Andrea Bocelli, Blake Shelton and Gwen Stefani, David Foster and Katharine McPhee and the Muppets, as well as, the refugees from overbooked ancient hotels in the holy land are involved this year.
Exert extreme caution!
Today’s second theme – Christmas Light Shows:
According to the Gallup Poll, the percentage of Americans who celebrate Christmas has dropped off to approximately 85%. This means there are approximately 109,182,500 households in the United States that celebrate the holiday. While not every home in the U.S. that celebrates Christmas decorates with extravagant lighting, many of them do.
Electricity use in the United States in 2021 was still more than 13 times greater than electricity use in 1950. The amount of electricity used by holiday lights is determined by the type of light used. The most common include 100-light mini lights. These lights use 0.039 kWh of electricity per hour, which is around 0.95 kWh per day. Ceramic C7 lights are also widely used. A 100-light strand uses 130 watts, which is around 0.13 kWh per hour, resulting in a daily use of around 3.15 kWh..
According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, the average cost for electricity in the United States is about 14 cents per kWh, as of August 2021. Based on that cost and the known wattage for typical bulbs, you can do the math to determine how much it costs to power a standard 100-bulb strand. The bigger the bulb, the more juice it takes to make it sparkle. For those big old-school C9 bulbs that are used most often for outdoor displays (and popularized by Clark Griswold), you can plan on paying for 175 watts of power for a single 25-bulb strand. Run that strand 12 hours a day for a 45-day period, and you’ll pay around $15.12 per strand over the holiday season. Prefer mini lights instead? A 100-light strand of incandescent minis runs around $3.53 per season. Some extreme household decorators can spend an extra $2,000 to light their displays!
It’s nice to see that the public is helping support the public utilities. You know that they are barely eking out a living.
Demand Euphoria!
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