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Christmas lights in American household used up more electricity during the holy season than some small centuries consumed in an entire year. According to researchers from the Center of Global Development, that's more power than is used annually by Ethiopia, Tanzania or El Salvador. Laura B has the story.
"The study says that America burnt 6.63 billion kilowatt hours over the Christmas season, shining brightly-colored lights and trees cross roof tops and gardens. That's enough power to run 14 million refrigerators. But it's still only a tiny fraction of what the US uses in a year. Compare that to El Salvador. Its annual electricity consumption is 5.35 billion kilowatt hours. The researchers say they are not anti-Christmas and the lights, they say, are a beautiful scene. But they do want to show the difference in energy use between rich and poorer countries."
圣诞节期间美国家庭的耗电量比一些小国家一年所用的电都要多，全球发展中心的研究表明，其耗电量超过了埃塞俄比亚、坦桑尼亚和萨尔瓦多这三个国家每年的用电量。劳拉报道。
“这份研究表明，在圣诞节期间美国人为了装点屋顶和花园上所用的彩灯要消耗66.3亿千瓦的电，足以运转1,400万台冰箱了。但这只是美国年耗电量的很小的一部分，而萨尔瓦多整个国家每年的耗电量是53.5亿千瓦。研究者说，他们并不是要反对圣诞节或这些彩灯，毕竟它们都很漂亮。但他们想让人们知道富国和穷国之间耗电量的差别。”
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