My wife always leaves the light on in every room she leaves. I follow her around turning them off because I’m a cheapskate and prefer it a little darker at night.
I will turn *everything* on (except that damn noisy dishwasher) tonight. Even the back porch light. Come to think of it, I better check that bulb...
Nope. If I’d have know, I would have turned on every light in the house, like last year.
I am saddened that I missed the 2nd Annual International Talk Like William Shatner Day.
Yep, I had all my lights on... all day long.
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.
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.
Earth hour 2010, looks like Earth Hour 2009. A dud.