Christmas Lights Go High-Tech

In two years, the needles won't be the only thing green on your christmas tree.

LEDs are appearing everywhere, from your TV to your car headlights, and this burgeoning popularity is driving costs down. They were a minority this holiday season on shelves and artificial trees, but prices are diving below the $10/strand mark. Their attractive operating costs are about 1/50 that of traditional bulbs and they last about 20,000 hours, twenty times longer than your run-of-the-mill incandescent strands. They are designed never to be replaced, so they are more durable and less likely to frustrate you when you take them out of the box every Christmas. This year LEDs took 10 percent of the market. The Daily Green, the source of that last link, can provide very good information about green products when they aren't being sanctimonious about it.

Shopping Tip:

Don't buy Christmas lights in that

sickly blue-white color. It is scary.

I am awfully bored today and I have read quite a bit about green stuff today, so I imagine I'll be writing more. However, because of how this blog is structured, you'll read those first. This note is probably a moot point, isn't it?