![]() ![]() This puts the light-covered area at 220 m 2. ![]() Let me include another 30 square meters to account for the lights on the front of the house (assuming no lights on the back). I will just estimate the total roof area at about 19 meters by 10 meters. The main roof of the house is about 15 meters wide - but there is also a garage that is maybe 4.5 meters wide. With some basic counting, I am going to go with 20 bulbs per square meter. If I assume the door in the screenshot above is 2 meters tall, I can get an estimate for how many light bulbs are used per square meter. It runs on 6.3 watts.īut how many lights does Clark use? That's a tough one. However, I did find a bulb that looks similar in a Christmas night-light. I don't have a string of these lights to measure. You know, the ones with the big and hot bulbs. Clark Griswold apparently uses the old-style Christmas lights. So, what about Clark's lights on his house? How much would that cost?įirst, there is an important difference with the Griswold house. I hate that one of my favorite Christmas movies is Christmas Vacation because it isn't really appropriate for the whole family. What About the Griswold Christmas Lights? I would compare this to the energy saving by switching out of Daylight Saving Time - but I fail to see how to get a good estimate for that. I mean, it's a lot of money - but this is the USA we are talking about here. Putting in my estimates, I get an electricity cost of $233 million. Just make sure that c is in the correct units - also T avg needs to be in seconds, not hours. ![]()
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