Through the years American’s way of lighting the Christmas tree has changed; initially with candles, followed by the bulky incandescent bulbs and then the mini bulb version. Now, there is a new and more efficient way to give the Christmas tree some shine, light emitting diodes, better known as LED lights.

These are seen to use 80 percent less electricity then the average mini lights. One can link up to 87 strands of lights off one outlet without having to worry about blowing a circuit. These lights will also last 10 times longer than the past incandescent bulb.

According to the U.S. Department of Energy, ten incandescent Christmas lights will produce 300 pounds of CO2 compared to the 30 that LED lights would produce from running all night. Even further, if every American home switched to LED as a whole we could save $160 million in energy costs.

Click HERE to see the LED Christmas light selection at Lowe's.                   SOURCE: www.greenandsave.com

Posted by Katie Throne

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