Wanna bet how many Liberals will turn-off their lights but keep their 70-inch TVs, A/C, and computers running?
A few years back, there was some nutty college professor who wanted everyone to join hands around the planet then jump up and down at the appointed time. The desired result was changing Earth’s orbit so it would be further from the sun.
WWF? World Wrestling Federation?
“Planet good! Lights bad!
Wanna bet how many Liberals will turn-off their lights but keep their 70-inch TVs, A/C, and computers running?”
How true, 99% of them are a pack of hypocrites. I am going to turn on every damn light on the property, do my best to make the place look like the “Lost Wages” strip.
I’m in, but I can’t do it at 8:30 pm, so how about if I turn the lights off at 11:30 pm?
They want to create change? Buy one stamp with a dollar. Repeat until satisfied.
“Pledge to switch off your lights” - man, if you can get a can of spray wax to turn off your lights, then you’re really onto something.
“Toast your friends and neighbors at an Earth Hour event.” they’d taste better deep-fried.
Crap, I turn of my lights to save my wallet! 19 cents a kw/hr in Fairbanks!
The libs should all eat spoiled rotten food (no refrigeration), forego antibiotics (no manufacturing, no refrigeration), haul their own water from the well (no pumps), and crap in the outhouse (no sewage system) for an hour on Saturday. Then half of them over age 40 should commit suicide to simulate the shortened lifespans resulting from no electricity. Only after all that would they would have the credibility to report back to us about how much of a paradise they’ve created by repealing the Industrial Revolution.
Critical thinking skills are not plentiful among the right-brained, logic-challenged, “feeeeeeling” leftists.
The WWF must be totally in love with North Korea because they turn off their lights EVERY night not just once a year.
North Korea has been celebrating Earth Century.
I’ll be pulling our cherished 100 watt incandescent bulbs out of their hiding place in my gun locker, swapping them out for the pigtail CFL’s we’re currently (forced) to use...and turning on EVERY light in the house in celebration of Dim Bulb Hour.
I also have to ask...does this include unplugging the Volts and Leafs?
Good - you’ll be able to see my place from orbit that night.
This place will be glowing on 3/31, starting at noon.
I’ll turn on lights I never use during the year, in addition to both TV sets, the stereo, the toaster oven (empty), and might test the garage door openers twenty or thirty times, just to make sure they’re working properly.
It might be a good time to clean the ovens, too.
Nobody - NOBODY - tells me what to do with utilities I pay for.
Nobody.
Remind me to go through the house turning on all the lights. (Normally, I turn them off and wonder why my kids can’t...)
I post this every year, but it’s just as much fun each time:
Your local brain-dead envirowhacko can stop or start the flow of electrons just by flipping a switch - not so your local utility. There’s a lag time for cranking up and cranking down the turbines, so if you know you’re going to lose some demand and then it’s going to come back an hour later (at some not perfectly predictable value), you’ve got to keep those turbines spinning, whether they’re pushing electrons through the wires or not.
So the amount of energy saved is likely to be wayyyyyyyyy less than what’s publicized - and much of the power that’s used up during that hour is just wasted.
But hey, somebody’s feeling good about themselves, and that’s all that matters, right?
I thought that if we had those new pigtails filled with mercury we didn’t need to turn off our lights anymore. What gives?
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"Will you be turning out the lights for an hour as part of Earth Hour?"
Nope.
In addition to your lights, did you also turn off your computer, microwave, telephone, cell phone (which you will have to recharge)? How about your refrigerator or freezer? How about your TV, cable and DVD/DVR (I'm sure Howard stopped watching the exciting NCAA basketball game to observe this "important" event)?
These appliances all consume more energry than simple lights.
Did you use candles to see in the dark?
Oops, you just emitted more CO2 than if you'd just simply left your lights on.
During the first few years of this "feel good" event organizers tried to say how much energy was saved. But then, someone with a brain ran the numbers and figured out that the net effect was, at best, negligible. So now the organizers have toned their message down to "it's aymbolic effort."
But it's more than symbolism. Depending upon how many were duped into participating in any one locality - the impact of turning out your lights may actually INCREASE energy usage at your local power plant or transformer station as the power grid compensates for this flux.
I was half-tempted to protest this protest by turning on every water faucet, light and appliance in my house and then going outside to run my snowblower AND lawnmower while burning trash and leaves under a bank of floodlights with my water hose running (safety first with fires) to SUPER-SIZE my carbon footprint.
But then I decided that my meaningless act of anti-protest wouldn't really negatively impact the environment any more than your meaningless act of protest would positively impact the environment.
So instead I just had another beer and watched my ball game.
But thanks for thinking of me. Maybe we can celebrate Earth Day together and discuss why the luddite environmental Nazis switched from decrying "global warming" to "climate change" (hint - it had something to do with all of their projections being wrong and the Earth actually cooling the last 10 years).