Sweet man, the homer santa caps it all off! :love:

thats pretty good actually, i would have expected that to be usin far more power. i always think its wrong to do this kind of thing, as well… but if ur pullin that little i’m ok with it (in fact it shows how much leds are gonna change things lighting wise) raaa people use (and waste) a lot more energy than that in many other (less obvious!) ways.

i tend to think that when people have said, ‘well its for the kids’, i’ve always thought well, so is the planet. Presumably some other set ups use a fair amount more than that (1k being ten reasonably bright standard light bulbs), i’d be upset if my bah humbug attitude was a total over reaction! 😉

as for lights hardly using anything in general, i’d probly dispute that. If u said ‘modern lighting systems hardly use up anythin’ i’d be happier!

but then i did spend the other saturday marchin round london over climate change (in the freezin cold! :wink:), so i am a bit touchy!

Mmmmmmm put a bit of effort into it!

I wouldn’t do out like that though personally.. I like the lack of xmas decorations at home and work this year raaa

yeah I was curious about the power draw of the outdoor lamps but 90% of the more expensive ones (like what richie uses) are LEDs rather than incandescent lamps.

Even with incandescents it takes 3 large xmas trees to draw as much power as a 100W lamp. I expect with Richie’s set up much of the power draw is for Homer who may contain one or more incandescents.

This year there are far less of these displays around in Ipswich, and those I have seen have far less units and probably barely draw 100W (peoples outside lights on their houses often use more…)

I’m a right miserable fucker

no lights, no decorations, no nuffink

cant be fucking arsed xmas_badgerxmas_badger

I like the party and drinkin aspect though xmas_badgerxmas_badger

however I do work all the way through it so its nothing much different for me,
however saying that I tend not to drink much over xmas as I start early and too worried about getting pulled
so save it for new years eve which I get off :love:

@djrichie_t 250880 wrote:

like i say them electric showers are absolute killers, if i was to campaign about anything it would be them because they emit lots more carbon for the same heat that a combi kicks out for a combi shower. power showers are ok (the ones that take the hot/cold water and pump it) but the leccy ones that heat up from cold, people dont realise it – a shower for say 20 mins will use 3kWh – thats almost 1.5kg of carbon thrown into the atmosphere lol! Almost 3 times what a gas combi boiler will use for the same heat.

That figure surprised me so I looked up some combi boiler ratings on the web. The ones I found are between 24 to 36 kW as compared to 9 kW for a typical electric heater shower. Surely then the combi will use three times more energy than a standalone leccy shower, not the other way round ? What have I missed ?

Nick

happy fucking christmas you flash bastard

are there others in your road wiv similar?

near us we have a whole road that do it,

they collect money for charity

(but I’m guessing some of it goes on their lecky :wink:)

and then we have the odd house dotted about,

one is so mad a taxi driver took us on a detour jus to show us it :laugh_at::laugh_at:

I second that.
I got shouted at in the street today for not having Christmas cheer… the bastards :yakk:

fuck christmas