LED Christmas lights save energy

Tomorrow is a big day. It is traditionally the day that I put up the Christmas lights. It is the day that I pull out the old lights and try to decide how they go on the house and in the shrubs. It is the day that I get to decide if this is the year I get new lights.

Well, the old lights are incandescent holiday lights. You know-the type that have been around for more than 100 years. These lights are outdated, inefficient, expensive, and bad for the environment.

So what do I do. I discover the idea of LED Christmas lights. These new lights use 1/10th of the energy of standard incandescent Christmas lights and will last for more than 50,000 hours compared to about 1500 for an average incandescent light. The LED bulbs are also very durable as they do not contain a fragile filament and the bulbs are constructed of a durable epoxy plastic no breakable glass. These lights create virtually no heat so they are safer for use on Christmas trees and around other combustible materials.

It is good to know in studying LED Christmas lights that a recent EPA report determined that if only 20% of American households switched to LED Christmas lights for the average 30 day holiday period it would conserve enough energy to power 200 households for an entire year.

What do you think that might mean for the future?

Don't you think it is time to make the same move that I am making and switch to LED Christmas lights?