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thought it was just lights? sif turn everything off... this isnt the ice age.

:)

kinda feel bad for having 2 52inch LCDs running... the PC and 3 19inch LCDs that are attached to that running... altho in all fairness LCDs dont use anywhere near as much power as CRT or Plasma... so thats a slight win for the tree huggers.

thought it was just lights? sif turn everything off... this isnt the ice age.

:)

kinda feel bad for having 2 52inch LCDs running... the PC and 3 19inch LCDs that are attached to that running... altho in all fairness LCDs dont use anywhere near as much power as CRT or Plasma... so thats a slight win for the tree huggers.

you are also fancy! :D

hmmm, funny thread.

my work did the hoo blah about it. but i look at it the way it really is.

this day/hour is about recognition, and creating awareness. and thats all. now its upto us to actually do better and change our lives so that we stop wasting energy.

but note this, atleast in victoria (Australia even) turning off your lights everything in the house/business will do absolutely jack shit in the actual pollution production in the last 24hours.

why is that, let me begin with explaining a few things first. There are two type of electricity producers.

Firstly is the base electricity producers. these are the Coal powered power plants in Gippsland. which produce a lot of green house gasses.

Secondly is the peak power generators. which only run during the day, when all The ACs are on all officers are busy all factories are working. they obviously create a lot of green house gases.

Now the problem is that most of the electricity being used during this one hour is the base energy. this base energy is being produced weather we use it or not. do you think that every time when you turn on the light in the toilet a small rabbit goes and farts to create the green house gas to create the electricity to create the power you need for that globe. do you ever see the coal powered generators close down... nope.

Hence this earth hour is a load of crap (apart from awareness), sorry to make all you greenie loving ppl disappoint.

turn off your lights when you dont use them every day and maybe the power companies realise they do not need 1 generator running and hence turn it off and we save a lot of green house gasses... or better yet get rid of the coal power plants, except it would mean the cost of electricity trebles.

and sorry about spelling.

i just got home from skye high. it looked the same from up there all lights on from what i could see, the only difference was the blue lights on the realto were off lol and the names on the top of the buildings. the eureka tower only had the red lights on the top coz they r there to notify aircrafts its there. i think thats right:S

why is that, let me begin with explaining a few things first. There are two type of electricity producers.

Firstly is the base electricity producers. these are the Coal powered power plants in Gippsland. which produce a lot of green house gasses.

Secondly is the peak power generators. which only run during the day, when all The ACs are on all officers are busy all factories are working. they obviously create a lot of green house gases.

Now the problem is that most of the electricity being used during this one hour is the base energy. this base energy is being produced weather we use it or not. do you think that every time when you turn on the light in the toilet a small rabbit goes and farts to create the green house gas to create the electricity to create the power you need for that globe. do you ever see the coal powered generators close down... nope.

Hence this earth hour is a load of crap (apart from awareness), sorry to make all you greenie loving ppl disappoint.

spot on - all power provided is on a pro-active basis, that is, its supplied before its used

so if the power companies estimate 1,000 killowatt units and VIC only uses 9400 killowatt units then the 600 units are wasted.

ie: they dont get stored up, reused later on or saved in batteries etc. so earth hour is void, becuase they estimate $x units and provide, the rest is wasted.

usually when a power blackout occurs the company has under-estimated so there isnt enough actual power, so suburbs black out.

had you have seen suburbs style blackouts on saturday night, then it would say that earth hour was a direct impact as

the companies mega low estimated the use and basically ran it too low. i mean they would have lowered the expecatation, but they can't just black out subrubs to save power. and there are very big pentalities for companies who under-estimate and black out suburbs etc. its not like internet where an outage is acceptable

im not saying its a waste of time, but a misconception perhaps like ziad said

its just some poeple believe its a massive impact, its probably not that big, but a good step, certainlty better than doing nothing

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