687,000 Christmas Lights

Even if those lights are small LED's at 1/10w each that's 68,700w; 286A of 240v;

And we won't talk about the light pollution...

Sigh, I like Christmas light to some extent, but really, some of these displays get to be a bit much.

Bah! Humbug!

John :-#)#

John Robertson snipped-for-privacy@flippers.com wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@giganews.com:

The guy had a theme for you too. It said "STOP THAT".

I saw a guy at the gas station I grab a coffee from sometimes. He works there. An old Navy guy. The other day I saw him sitting outside havig his cigarette (yes at a gas station 25' from the pumps)and I noticed he had a string of Christmas lights draped around him like a Mexican bandito. I laughed and said "I'll bet you're glad that those are not the old 120 Volt jobs." and he laughed... Made me think of "Down Periscope", and so I said "Hey have you ever seen that movie "Down Periscope"? and he goes "No". I was like "No way!" and he said he had just bought it on DVD and had yet to sit down and watch it.

I am going to keep checking with him when I grab a coffee. The 'electrician' in that movie is hilarious... or the radioman or yeah... that guy.

and consider, these mega-LED displays are just upstate NY area (WIBX broadcast area). We can assume such human excess-lighting is occuring all across our electrified earth. What's a little more global warming, to spread more cheer! eh?

cheerio, RS

Richard Sulin snipped-for-privacy@consumer.org wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@googlegroups.com:

I wonder how many "Cray 1"s worth of compute power it has (read requires?) now over when it was first started.