Richard Holdman

Awesome!

Thanks for the reply.

Also if you check out the FAQ on my web site at holdman.com/christmas/faq.asp you will see that the display is powered by wind.

I believe that we need to be wise with our energy consumption.

Hi Rubén

I got into an e-mail argument once with a guy that really said some nasty things about me because I was "wasting" electricity. The following is not directed towards you (I sent it to the other guy) but it may give you a better understanding that Christmas Lights are not going to destroy the world.

Thanks and glad you liked the video.

-Richard

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Guess how much Electricity was used in the making of this video? When running the display it uses about $5 of Electricity per night when it is running for 4 hours per night in December making it $1.25 per hour to run the display. Now this songs gets played every 6 minutes per hour so that cost me about 20 cents in Electricity to play this song for the cars watching it outside. Normally about 15 cars are watching it at a time with an average of 3 people per car making it cost .004 cents per person that watches it. The Electricity that was used in the making of this video cost about .33 cents.

We have a video that has been viewed over 4 million times and now you are complaining that I used 33 cents worth of Electricity in the making of this video which equals about .000008 cents per person that watches it? Do you also not go to any concerts that may use Electricity because it "is a waste". Do you stop by car dealer lots at night who use about 10x the amount of electricity I do 365 days a year and tell them they are the problem and creating "Global Warming"? Do you also complain to Movie making companies because they use tremendous amounts of energy per second of the movie you are watching? (Hundreds of people and thousands of hours of lighting equipment that is on). Do you only take Cold Showers which only benefits yourself, so you can save 10 cents of energy? I could go on and on but you get the picture.

So my question to you is when you use 33 cents of electricity, do you only use it for yourself making coffee, watching TV, surfing the internet, charging your ipod, etc. or are you using it in a giving way to put a smile on peoples faces and making them realize that the world is not so bad after all.