A Million Points of Light
by Dave Wilson on Jan.05, 2010, under Miscellaneous, Photography
Christmas and New Year are behind us but I thought I would take one last chance to post a Christmas image before I put them to bed for another 12 months or so.
This picture was taken at the Pedermales Electric Co-op’s head office in Johnson City, Texas a week or so ago. Johnson City does a great job with its Christmas light display (their courthouse is literally encased in strings of lights) but the PEC display is the one that really draws the crowds. The actual office complex is surrounded by Live Oak trees, each one of which is completely filled with white lights. Visitors can walk among the trees and the effect is quite mesmerising.
Supposedly there are somewhere in the region of one million lights used. By my reckoning (with a bit of help from HowStuffWorks), this display sucks somewhere in the region of 500kW of power but I guess that’s not a problem to the electric company.
I’m glad I’m not paying the bill for the power – PEC charge me around 10.4 cents per kWH. Assuming they have the lights turned on 6 hours a day for the whole of December (I’m guessing since I don’t know when the display starts and whether or not they turn the lights off late at night), this would cost just under $10,000!
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January 5th, 2010 on Jan 05, 10 | 8:50 pm
Great shot Dave! Love it.
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