Posted on 03/26/2007 2:03:49 PM PDT by ricks_place
This year at Union College, students have sometimes studied in groups in the hallways, clustered around a common light. They’ve turned off their computers more. They’ve taken shorter showers and unplugged their laptops when they’re not using them.
Students are trying harder to conserve energy, and it’s not by accident.
The effort is the result of Do It In The Dark, a campuswide competition that challenges all living spaces — residence halls, apartments, fraternities and sororities — to reduce consumption of electricity, gas and water. The house that sees the biggest drop per capita will win the Ozone Cup, a trophy made of recycled materials.
“A lot of students are big into the campaign,” said Stephen Po-Chedley, 21, the Union College student who spearheaded the Do It In The Dark campaign. “People come up and tell me what they’re doing to keep energy low. I’ve seen lights turned off in places where I’ve never seen it before.”
Union isn’t the only local college talking about energy issues.
(Excerpt) Read more at union.edu ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
How many of those lights were installed to prevent crimes like burglaries, drug-dealing, and rapes, deep-thinker Stephen Po-Chedley?
Fools.
It must be nice to be young, well-financed by parents and loans and stupid.
I bet that the total kW hours used at this college this year will be higher than last year.
Wow, now there's a huge incentive, a cow chip.
I wonder if the campus offers any degrees in real sciences such as Civil Engineering.
If it did, they might be able to discover a project such as the following would do more than trying to turn the clock back two centuries or more:
If Greenland melted down completely, 88% of the excess water produced could be contained by flooding the uninhabited Qatarra Depression in nortwest Egypt, producing thousands of miles of valuable lakefront property, generating electrical power as water flowed from the Medditerranean to the depression and potentially turning much of the surrounding Sahara Desert into arable land.
It took Greenland 18,000 years to accumulate as much ice as it has now. How long do you think it will take it to melt?
Global warming or not, wasting energy is not a good deal. I suspect the university is more interested in reduced power bills though.
Humans are so arrogant. We are but ants on this planet. Anyone should take a low altitude flight over this country to see how little we count, outside the cities.
Why not shut down colleges because they waste energy and put out products that pollute our environment(liberal thinkers)?
Like most fathers, I spent most of my kids' adolescence nagging them to turn off lights and electronic devices when not in use in order to save on the electric bills, and got nowhere. But let AL GORE tell them and all of a sudden it's all different...
Of course it will keep the lightbulb replacer guy in work forever.
Most liberal college slackers only shower once a week anyway. They usually just keep a candle lit for their bong hits also. I don't see much energy savings coming from this nonsense.
Most liberal college slackers only shower once a week anyway. They usually just keep a candle lit for their bong hits also. I don't see much energy savings coming from this nonsense.
Unless these students see their tuition go down as a result of all this conservation, they're idiots.
It is nice to see college students doing something useful, like conserving energy. That is a kind of responsible activity, but it has nothing to do with global warming. Climate change has been going on for millions of years. If Mars and other planets in our solar system are experiencing global warming, so is the Earth. The Sun is the source of the climate change the Earth has experienced and will continue to experience. I hope that these young people do not actually think that their efforts have anything to do with the climate.
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