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Earth Hour

Red Squirrel

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May 24, 2003
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In about half an hour.

https://www.earthhour.org/

I don't really think it does much, but it's a neat concept to raise some awareness about energy usage and climate change (not really relevant here given our power comes from dams) I guess. I did it last year, I just turned off the main breaker. I like to give my big UPS a test run once in a while and it's a crude way of forcing an equalize so it worked out.

I don't think it would be a good idea to be turning off the main 1,600 amp breaker here at work though. :p
 

shortylickens

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Jul 15, 2003
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I could not use my gaming rig.
That probably saves about 30 amps, including monitor and speakers.
 

eldorado99

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I will turn off the main and fire up my big smokey gas powered generator. Am I doing it right?