Damn! I forgot about Earth Hour. (1 Viewer)

[kevinx2]

...campaign to encourage businesses, communities and individuals to take the simple steps needed to cut their emissions on an ongoing basis

 

[justanotherposter]

kenvinx2 up^ there has the right idea.

Just a symbolic gesture really. Didnt participate, cause there's no purpose. If they really wanted to make a difference, they'd turn off the power to industries.

Yeah man, lets cut the power off to the fucking industries and manufacturing plants. I see no negative repercussions to this ingenious plan at all. /sarcasm

 

[Graney]

But there is a little problem, the concept of earth hour is not really viable (if we were to do it like every week), we cant just sit in the dark.

Well you could, it's not like you were going to do anything important.

 

[shinji]

CO2 doesn't actually have any cause-effect on global warming. Just extremely glorified by scientific theory where there was a increase ain Co2 & temp (by chance) and then decrease in temp but increase in CO2 (for over a few years).

The public panicked and thus became the global warming theory.

 

[0hNivlek]

I did it for like 5 minutes. Half Yearlies tomorrow so light is essential!

 

[red-butterfly]

i didnt, we lit up candles everywhere and ended up setting off the smoke alarm :S

 

[the.RAVER]

I participated.

 

[spyborg]

same i just played games all throughout it lol

 

[xXmuffin0manXx]

lol..i was watching tv (swans game) and i saw itwas 8:45..so i went to my room and looked outside and saw most of the other buildings had lights on so i kept mine on

 

[Venom.]

kenvinx2 up^ there has the right idea.



Yeah man, lets cut the power off to the fucking industries and manufacturing plants. I see no negative repercussions to this ingenious plan at all. /sarcasm

I wasnt advocating that. I'm just explaining to pointlessness of such a stupid concept. So fuck you.

 

[k2nv]

For Earth Hour - I turned off my laptop charger and had candles :L i'm so cool.

 

[jessiminica]

it actually does nothing cos they don't turn the turbine off at the power station

Exactly. It's a good awareness raiser, but ultimately pointless- it just means that there's more unused electricity in the grid.

 

[kevinx2]

In Soviet Russia, Earth Hour forgets you!

 

[Graney]

Exactly. It's a good awareness raiser, but ultimately pointless- it just means that there's more unused electricity in the grid.

The power generated by turbines is variable, they don't operate constantly at maximum capacity, every kw is money the coal station doesn't need to lose. They can and do decrease output in response to decreasing load.

I'm not saying anything about the effectiveness or relevancy of earth hour, but it's a myth power stations will constantly operate at full capacity, and they must either be on or off.

 

[Absolutezero]

In Soviet Russia, Earth Hour forgets you!

lol

I was at work, so I had no control over what the lights did... I did light candles though, but again, part of the job.

 

[walkahz]

HAHAHA I turned more lights on purposly. What a load of wank. Was listning to the radio on the way to the race track this morning though. Newcastle had a drop of a whole 7% of power usage WOW THATS FUCKING HUGE!! NOT.

 

[Crashy19]

was more interested in watching the raiders fail at playing rugby league....

so in short answer yes i forgot

same

 

[pokerchoker]

The power generated by turbines is variable, they don't operate constantly at maximum capacity, every kw is money the coal station doesn't need to lose. They can and do decrease output in response to decreasing load.

I'm not saying anything about the effectiveness or relevancy of earth hour, but it's a myth power stations will constantly operate at full capacity, and they must either be on or off.

If anything they have to ramp up capacity during this time for when all the earth hour dolts turn everything on all at once!

 

[pokerchoker]

I realise that having the lights off for 1 hr is better than nothing

Actually it's not better than nothing, it actually IS nothing.

 

[iNerd]

earth hour
ftw
shame on you for those who didn't do it