Earth Hour

[leowyatt]

Just been to google and noticed it looked like this:

http://www.badasszebedee.com/images/Picture 1.png

and it's like that because of this:

http://www.badasszebedee.com/images/Picture 2.png

[petemc]

Great idea, but tbh I can't see it happening :( I'd love to see all the lights turned out on a crisp winter evening. Just to see the stars, and also to see that people want change. That they can speak with one voice. Its 12pm and I'm sitting here with my lights on :( *click*

[divine]

I shall look forward to the utter failure this will be.

[Mark]

Me too. I fully expect to see Quantel 'glowing' down the road as usual. I can usually see it from about half a mile away unless it's a really clear night. With ridiculous waste such as that, what hope do we really have?

[Del Lardo]

Cisco turned out all the lights in their offices to support Earth Hour. I did my bit my turning my brain off to save energy :D

[SidewinderINC]

I usually have the lights off in my place anyways :p

[Stan_Lite]

At 9 o'clock in the morning, it's light enough not to need artificial lighting in the house anyway. I didn't bother switching off my 7 PC Folding farm for an hour :p

I have yet to see convincing evidence that human activity is causing global warming and until I do, I will continue to be sceptical regarding the motives of the government and everybody else cashing in on the "green revolution".

It's a good idea to conserve energy to save money but, other than that, do what you like. When it is proved to me that switching stuff off really will help the planet, I'll do it - but not before.

[Feek]

8PM to 9PM local time, ie now.

[Mondo]

I'm at work and on my mobile online, so. That's at least a computer off!

[Stan_Lite]

8PM to 9PM local time, ie now.

Ahh, my bad. I thought it was across the world at the same hour - that's what happens when you don't read the whole article :o

[Mark]

Well, I've turned the lights out. Just got one CFL on, I'm not turning that one off. :p

Unfortunately I'm using the washing machine, so my consumption is higher than it would normally be. ;D

[petemc]

Whoops :o Sorta forgot.

[Nutcase]

All my energy saving lightbulbs were off, however the 150w bulb was on in my proj as were 2 comps while I was watching a film. And of course the 5x 110w rms amp...

Oops :o

[SidewinderINC]

only thing that was on in my place was the laptop (and fridge freezer)

admittedly I started 20 minutes late, but still went for an hour :p

[Jonny69]

At 9 o'clock in the morning, it's light enough not to need artificial lighting in the house anyway. I didn't bother switching off my 7 PC Folding farm for an hour :p
I'm not so worried about the global warming, doesn't that little lot cost you a fortune to run?

[Desmo]

I have yet to see convincing evidence that human activity is causing global warming and until I do...
It's not just about global warming Stan.....waht about the earths resources in general?

[Stan_Lite]

It's not just about global warming Stan.....waht about the earths resources in general?

The earth has a great many alternative sources of energy - it just happens that fossil fuels are cheap and easy to use at present. When they start running out, they will start using these alternatives.
TBH, I can't see it being long before we start to see more nuclear power stations springing up, now that the likes of China and India are starting to use more and more fossil fuels to power their massive industrial demands.