...and not a drop to drink.

1,729 feet of neon tubing and 3,390 light bulbs later and you have “Electric Fountain,” a 35-foot-high modern sculpture by British artists Sue Webster and Tim Noble. It has been plopped down in Rockefeller Center where the once and future holiday trees annually stand; this season’s tree a miracle of woodchips presumably now being put to good use elsewhere. The tree is gone, as is the holiday, but this is a welcome sight nonetheless; as time mulches on.
The lights of the sculpture “run” in a pattern emulating the flow of water and, although a bit reminiscent of Disney's parade-of-lights, there’s nuttin’ wrong with that to darken even this jaded eye. The flow of lights look best in the early evening as the skies darken but it’s still impressive in the light of day. Like on this year’s holiday tree the bulbs are of the new LED type and we are told (incessantly) they use about 70% less energy than tungsten bulbs; so we can be pleased with ourselves on that score. The fountain, however, will “flow” from 6:00 a.m. to midnight every day through April 4th so that Con Edison bill is one at which one should not sneeze.