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Sweet- I'll pull all the plugs at work (kinko's). Maybe be really green and flip the master power breaker.
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It's 10 to 9 here. I'm going to go and look outside and see if I see any lights.
Edit: Well don't I feel the jerk-left-out! Not a single light. And that's *very* unusual around here for a Saturday night.
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I had 40+ of them burning right through the hour. Security lighting probably shouldn't count.
Were your neighbors grazing during that hour?
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Dunno, I couldn't see them, it was dark
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Hmmm well the "Earth Hour" people are supposedly calculating the reduction in energy out put required for that one hour. They say it should be equivalent - for one city to turn off most of their lights - equivalent to taking 48,000 cars off of the road for that hour. Supposedly Sydney last year were aiming for 5% reduction - ended up with 10.3% reduction.
I shut my computer off for an hour and most of our lights.
Supposedly one news outlet is saying that the predicted (from registered residents and businesses involved for Earth hour 2008) energy usage drop (in Australia) would be the equivalent of two power stations shutting down for the hour.
I'm not sure if that is per city involved or what.
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Now, are they trying to calculate the power not used by the non usage, or are they adding in the power to mine/make the components need to run everything for the entire grid?
A light bulb, for example, has a certain number of hours that it will work for, supposedly. The ones I use are supposedly seven year bulbs, if used 8 hours per day in he perfect environment. So, turning off 20,440 of them for one hour is the equivalent of not manufacturing one bulb. How much energy is 'saved' by not having to make that one bulb and the associated packaging?
Then you could add in the wear on the power meters....
They will say, and manipulate the numbers, to their own ends, everyone does........
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Electricity is too convenient for people to give up, and the oil companies have too much vested interest in oil and coal to switch to hydrogen, and people are too afraid of a meltdown (even though those were flawed Generation I designs) to switch to nuclear. I'm pretty sure nothing's going to change until we run out of so much coal and oil that prices are high enough the oil companies aren't making a profit, because noone can actually afford it anymore.
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