Chris in VA Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 Some sources say yes, but.... Really? Isn't that an awful lot? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 21, 2016 Share Posted June 21, 2016 (edited) No. You can estimate that that would draw way too much power. I found the number 20,000 which I find much more believable. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9444530/Eiffel-Tower-goes-green.html Edited June 21, 2016 by regentrude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hilltopmom Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I dunno, but my kids & dh were just there & video'd the sparkling light show & it was pretty cool. My husband said you could not see any solar panels or wind turbines (he's into that kind of stuff) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaithManor Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 I don't think that is a light bill that the tax payers of Paris would choose to support. I think, if memory serves, the number is more in the low thousands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carpe Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 To install 5 billion lightbulbs would take more than 4700 man-years (30 seconds per bulb non-stop) so there would be no feasible way to get them all changed as they burned out. 5 billion is an insanely large number. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellifera33 Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 To install 5 billion lightbulbs would take more than 4700 man-years (30 seconds per bulb non-stop) so there would be no feasible way to get them all changed as they burned out. 5 billion is an insanely large number. Ha! I did the same calculation yesterday, just because I was curious. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted June 22, 2016 Share Posted June 22, 2016 Google is your friend https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&site=&source=hp&q=how+many+lights+are+on+the+eiffel+tower&oq=how+many+lights+are+on+the+e&gs_l=hp.1.0.0j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.317.4997.0.7089.29.15.0.3.3.0.619.2189.3-2j2j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..21.8.2266.0.OOytbPtit8o Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris in VA Posted June 23, 2016 Author Share Posted June 23, 2016 Google is your friend https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&site=&source=hp&q=how+many+lights+are+on+the+eiffel+tower&oq=how+many+lights+are+on+the+e&gs_l=hp.1.0.0j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.317.4997.0.7089.29.15.0.3.3.0.619.2189.3-2j2j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..21.8.2266.0.OOytbPtit8o Right. And several entries say 5 billion! Google isn't that good a friend when it just presents information without discernment. That is why I asked!😊 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) Google is your friend https://www.google.com/search?safe=active&site=&source=hp&q=how+many+lights+are+on+the+eiffel+tower&oq=how+many+lights+are+on+the+e&gs_l=hp.1.0.0j0i22i30l4j0i22i10i30j0i22i30j0i22i10i30j0i22i30l2.317.4997.0.7089.29.15.0.3.3.0.619.2189.3-2j2j1.5.0....0...1c.1.64.hp..21.8.2266.0.OOytbPtit8o Not always :(. When clicking on the link the top info shows 20,000 lights, but the 2 articles right below say 5 billion. Sometimes I try to find a "somewhere around there" concept...but, there's just no closeness between both numbers. Edited June 23, 2016 by mamiof5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 No idea!! Also finding both numbers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) Go to the source: http://www.toureiffel.paris/en/everything-about-the-tower/the-illuminations.html I figure if anybody knows how many lights they have, it's the Eiffel tower people themselves. Their official website says 20,000. This is a good lesson in not believing everything one reads online because people just repeat information without checking veracity first. Edited June 23, 2016 by regentrude 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Wiki says 20,000. The article has a full reference list and bibliography for the facts contained in it, so I would believe that it has accurate information. I would go with that number since it makes sense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 Go to the source: http://www.toureiffel.paris/en/everything-about-the-tower/the-illuminations.html I figure if anybody knows how many lights they have, it's the Eiffel tower people themselves. LOL I was looking for the towers official site and this didn't come up. It is always interesting to me, how different people can search similar terms and get different websites that come up first. I assume this site was on the list of what came up, but just far enough down that I ignored it since it was a HTML page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) I assume this site was on the list of what came up, but just far enough down that I ignored it since it was a HTML page. completely off topic but I am intrigued: why would one ignore an html page? ETA: I run several websites, so really want to know what would cause people to ignore Edited June 23, 2016 by regentrude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) completely off topic but I am intrigued: why would one ignore an html page? ETA: I run several websites, so really want to know what would cause people to ignore Because most major websites are .com .net etc. HTML websites are often not the official site, but they have just a snippet of information and links. ETA: If it was a kids baseball time website, I wouldn't be surprised to see HTML. But for an official website of the Eiffel Tower....I would expect something different. Edited June 23, 2016 by Tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 23, 2016 Share Posted June 23, 2016 (edited) Because most major websites are .com .net etc. HTML websites are often not the official site, but they have just a snippet of information and links. but even the .com domain would have an index.html page that is "the" page Like this: http://www.cnn.com/US/index.html https://www.nasa.gov/index.html http://www.apple.com/index.html The start page for all the pages I am involved with (be it .edu, .net., or .info) is automatically an index.html page, and the sub pages are html as well. That has nothing to do with the domain extension. Edited June 23, 2016 by regentrude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) , started to respond but ran out of time, Edited June 24, 2016 by Tap Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 To install 5 billion lightbulbs would take more than 4700 man-years (30 seconds per bulb non-stop) so there would be no feasible way to get them all changed as they burned out. 5 billion is an insanely large number. I like this answer. I want to teach my kids to be numerate, so this is the answer I'd like to see them think about. Others might be: The Eiffel tower is about 300 meters tall. Let's call it 500 meters to make the math easy. If there were 5 billion lights, that means there would be about 10 million lights per meter of the tower, which there clearly can't be. How much would 5 billion light bulbs cost to purchase? Let's assume they'd be $1 (or 1 Euro) each. You know, because they'd be buying in bulk. There's no way one would spend $5 billion just on lights. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mamiof5 Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 Go to the source: http://www.toureiffel.paris/en/everything-about-the-tower/the-illuminations.html I figure if anybody knows how many lights they have, it's the Eiffel tower people themselves. Their official website says 20,000. Lol! Thankful for Google translation :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
regentrude Posted June 24, 2016 Share Posted June 24, 2016 (edited) nm Edited June 24, 2016 by regentrude Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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