I’ll have to make sure to turn all my lights and TVs on and leave my cars running during that hour. Maybe I’ll take cans out of other people’s recycling bins and put them in my trashcan.
The additional electic bill and gasoline expenditure will be worth it.
SnakeDoc
Last year, I joked with my wife about getting some of those rotating spotlights for the earth hour.
LOL... last year my neighbors house went dark. At that moment I lit up my house like Chevy Chase in National Lampoons Christmas. I had flood lights, shop lights, lawnmowers running....
Methinks they doth miss the point.
A couple neighbors will turn off their lights and abhor the fine example I'll be setting. That is good enough for me.
I have mixed feelings. I may get my telescope out if the sky is clear, in which case my home will look just like an environmental nutcase lives there. An hour of observing with fewer background lights would be a good thing. On the other hand, I’ll have every light I own on if it’s cloudy.
Time to bust out the 1000-watt floodlights.
We will cure the world’s problems if only we turn out the lights and live like it was 1400. NOT.
At least they aren’t proposing a no flush hour.
Gaea worship is a form of idolatry. You only need to read a little bit of what Julian Jaynes had to say on the topic to comprehend why that is a bad thing...
Please correct me if I am wrong, but turning off the lights won't save electricity, just the person's electric bill. The electricity will still be produced, just not used. Electricity isn't stored and doesn't hang around waiting for someone to turn on a light.
If I'm not mistaken, the electricity you use is produced more or less when you use it, based more on anticipated demand than on actual, so not all produced electricity does work. Use it or lose it.
On active message boards which are equal to chat rooms,this night ranks right up there with “a day without messicans” as it IS an evening without libs for a while.
wish they did it once a month.
Turned on every light in my house last year for this.
Will do so again this year.
What’s gonna happen if they’re charging a Prius at that hour?
I turn off my lights for about eight hours every day.....
This is equivalent to lighting a candle for someone after they die. Looks good, feels good and does ABSOLUTELY NOTHING!
I’ll do my part to minimize the sudden load shift for my local electrical utility, so that they don’t end up with fluctuations in our local grid, thus causing them to overgenerate and waste fuel. Steady-state generation is far more efficient than having a sudden drop in demand followed by a sudden spike an hour later. In fact, I’ll have to add extra load to cover the dropped load from other houses in the area, so I’ll have all my appliances going, all lights on etc. I may need to run a bottle of fuel cleaner through my truck at that particular time too, so I’ll let it idle while I vacuum it out with my shopvac.
We already know that the Enviro-Nazis dream for our future is a resumption of the Dark Ages. This is merely a practical demonstration.