Posted on 03/28/2010 12:55:42 PM PDT by gunsequalfreedom
Edited on 03/28/2010 3:32:33 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Earth Hour, Did you participate?
Wasn't even aware of it until too late. Otherwise I would have burned something, or driven the SUV around for a while, in 4WD.
I participate every day because I am conservative. I don’t use anything more than I have to. It just makes good sense. I don’t need retarded liberals telling me what to do and when to do it.
No. My brother wrote this a year ago, for the last Earth Hour...
“From a power station employee: why Earth hour is f*****g stupid.
March 28 2009 at 5:25 PM
People have no idea how the electrical grid works. Shutting off your lights for an hour doesn’t do a damn thing.
It takes 8 hours for us to start up a generator. It takes the big station and entire day (and those times are if nothing goes wrong, which is becoming less and less common with our aging power stations).
So when you shut off your lights, nothing is being shut down. The power plants are still sitting there, churning out fumes. They may back the smaller stations down a bit, but it’s a drop in the bucket. And they’re not going to back down much or for very long (if at all) because they’re waiting for that surge when all the people turn their lights back on. Matter of fact, if Earth hour was actually popular, they would have to crank up MORE power to get ready for the big surge when everyone turns their lights back on. Think of it as starting up a hill in your car. You have to have the gas pushed in a little more before you start up the hill or your momentum will suffer.
So Earth hour actually causes more coal to be burned and you actually get more emissions.
Good job liberals! As usual, you’ve done exactly the OPPOSITE of what you say you’re doing because you base everything on feel-good emotions and not reality.
Actually, those of us who turn all of our lights ON tonight will be the ones who are saving energy.”
I, like many here, had everything cranked.
Thanks for posting that. That is what make FR great, we get to hear from those with their hands on the switch of daily life, the real experts.
No.
I didn’t participate. In fact, I was at work all night. At the power company. I did not see any perceptible change in load that could be related to people turning off their lights for the hour of 8:30 to 9:30 in either the eastern or the central time zones.
I think that dot of light is Pyongyang, most likely caused by lighting for all the monuments to Dear Leader.
Another measure for this is the PS3. Download the Life app (the one that does Folding@Home) and then you can rotate the Earth and see dots for all the PS3 clients around the world crunching on Folding@Home. Not too many in communist countries.
Earth hour 2010, looks like Earth Hour 2009. A dud.
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