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Which burns more kilowatt-hours: America's Christmas lights, or Tanzania?

2015-12-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

National Public Radio: A headline for a chart caught our eye this week: "US Holiday Lights Use More Electricity than El Salvador Does In a Year." According to the chart, America burns 6.63 billion kilowatt hours to shine its end-of-year holiday lights. By comparison, annual kilowatt hours in the developing world are paltry. In an entire year, El Salvador uses 5.35 billion kilowatt hours. Ethiopia is at 5.30 billion, Tanzania at 4.8 billion, Nepal at 3.28 billion and Cambodia at 3.06 billion. (That data comes from the...

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