I hope this adds to your enjoyment of the holidays.
Institute for Energy Research (12/23/20) reports: "Never has there been a better time to enliven darkness with celebratory holiday lighting. Locally, nationally, globally, people need happiness and hope, not gloom about a dark winter. Millions decorating with Christmas lights, good neighbors and citizens all, will not be denied. In the energy capital, the Houston Chronicle captured the mood with this comment from one super-displayer: 'It has been such a crazy year, and I am seeing lights going up all over in the neighborhood. People are ready to get to some happy. Christmas is my favorite time of year — I just love it, and I love going all out for it. This is a different kind of year, but we will be positive and make the best of it.' 'Everyone is going full guns,' said another. 'We all want to see a little Christmas.' Expect record lighting this December to end 2020’s darkness...Holiday lighting is a wondrous social offering—a positive externality in the jargon of economics—given by many to all. The energy enabling Christmas lights is becoming more sustainable, not less, despite myriad government interventions to force expensive, unreliable, infrastructure-intensive substitutes (think industrial wind turbines and solar arrays) into the mix. But forget the politics for the rest of the year. Add light to enliven darkness and elevate the mood. It’s all sustainable and otherwise as pure as the driven snow."
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