Posted: Tuesday, 20 November 2007 3:33PM
Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree is Going Green
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The world's most famous Christmas tree is very green: for the first time, the lights on the Rockefeller Center spruce will be energy-saving bulbs.
Replacing the lights, which will be turned on in a ceremony next week, reduces the energy consumption of the holiday display from 3,510 kilowatt hours to 1,297 kilowatt hours per day.
The daily savings is equal to the amount of energy used to power a 2,000-square-foot home for an entire month.
The 84-foot-tall Norway Spruce will be covered with 30,000 multicolored energy-efficient bulbs, known as light emitting diodes, or LEDs. After the lighting on November 28, the tree stays illuminated from 5:30 a.m. to 11:30 p.m. through the first week of January.
After the tree comes down, it will be recycled, milled and made into lumber to be used in houses built by Habitat for Humanity. |
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