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Earth Hour

Xstatic1

Xstatic1

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On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

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Most of the time, the only light that's on in my house is my desk lamp and my computer monitor. Not a big fan or turning all the lights on in my house when I'm home.
 
*looks across street where it's just another apartment building* Nope...lights are still on in almost every window there too.
 
I did not participate in the past years but now that I have a UPS for my server/network equipment that can last for 5 hours, think I'll go for it. At 8:30 tomorrow, I will shut off the main breaker. I can play on my phone during that time.

This sooo defeats the purpose though, but meh, why not, should be fun.
 
While that one hour does not really do much, it's more a symbolism thing, to show awareness. They were talking on the radio today how lot of the mines participate in this stuff, but they go further, such as take employee suggestions on way to cut pollution/energy use and they will actually practice those new things on a day to day basis after. So THAT is what makes a difference. If it takes something like Earth hour to raise awareness I think it did it's job. Though, electricity use does not really cause climate change given most of it comes from hydro dams here, the biggest impact is gasoline use, natural gas use, etc.
 
I don't suggest doing this. If everyone all over the world turns their lights off at the same time, we will go into a global freeze. I'd rather be warm.
 
I wonder if this really does more damage then good, since a significant drop in load makes generators scale down for that hour.. Then right after they have to use generators that maybe less efficient to ramp up quickly to pick up the increase in load since everyone probably turns most lights back on... Though it might not be a lot of load...
 
Red Squirrel said:
While that one hour does not really do much, it's more a symbolism thing, to show awareness. They were talking on the radio today how lot of the mines participate in this stuff, but they go further, such as take employee suggestions on way to cut pollution/energy use and they will actually practice those new things on a day to day basis after. So THAT is what makes a difference. If it takes something like Earth hour to raise awareness I think it did it's job. Though, electricity use does not really cause climate change given most of it comes from hydro dams here, the biggest impact is gasoline use, natural gas use, etc.
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Earth Hour is now!

Main breaker is off, going to shut down the PC too. Servers stay running though. 😛

Figured why not. Also good to exercise the backup batteries.
 
Mixolydian said:
this. i conserve energy whenever possible, so i dont really see a point to this personally.
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To me, it's like the idiots who boycott buying gasoline on a certain day...They fill up the day before or the day after, though...so it really accomplishes nothing.
 
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