Idiot Hour
If you were gullible enough to fall for this load of crap and turn your lights off, I have a business proposition I'd like to discuss with you. Seriously! I can make you filthy rich in just one year, in return for a small investment on your part!
posted by Jar(egg)head at 07:54
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Jar(egg)head you know I am so anti save the planet anything, so I told my little rug rats on Saturday they could turn on all the lights in the house before we left for dinner. I know it is not enough to offset the dimming of other lights in the world but at least I am doing my part! Is that not the called of the Tree hugging, Gorebal Warming idiots?
Sweet! And I fired up the smoker for four hours. Cooked a boat-load of dead cow and chicken by burning through a couple small trees worth of wood.
I'd say we more than did our anti-Earth work for the weekend, sir.
I rented a Hummer H3 and drove it to the mountians or about 500 miles this weekend. I rock on Gorebal warming!
In the article they want everyone to turn off electric light and use candles for one hour. The amount of light given off by any object is measured in Candelas or another term, candle power.I Got this definition off of Wiki...
A candela is a measurement of the intensity of light, used in the International Standard (SI) measurement system. In the modern age, it is technically defined as the intensity in a given direction of a source that emits monochromatic radiation of a frequency of 540 x 10^12 hertz and which has a radiant intensity in the same direction of 1/683 watts per steradian. To symplify a 100 watt bulb puts out roughly 120 candelas.
What does all this mean? well each candle has to BURN to produce the light and thus produces pollution. Carbon Dioxide and other fine particulates are emitted when a candle is lit. Thus based off the previous information, you would need 120 candles to replace the light emiting power of one 100 watt bulb. Now I know people are not going to light 120 candles for each light bulb, but they will light many, thus adding more pollution to the atmosphere than if they had just left the lights on. Think before you act. Just because it sounds like a good idea and will "help" the environment doesn't mean it will.
It also reflects a complete lack of understanding about how power plants and grids operate. They don't throw extra coal on the fire when you flip a switch. A grid cannot be effectively adjusted to an altered load in one hour; the power is still being generated to maintain the predicted load on the grid, based upon day of the week, weather, time of day, etc.
So to extend your example, by burning candles they're actually creating more pollution during "Earth Hour" than if they had just used the electric lights.
Brilliant!
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