Thread: World Wide Power Off

I don't have to do the 'Turn off the power for an hour' thing to save the world. The power company (Ergon) does it for me automatically. Usually at least once a week for at least an hour each time, and sometimes they just do it in 10 - 20 minute outages, 6 or so times a day, so you don't notice as much.
If only the rest of you would wake up to yourselves and use Ergon, there's no way the ice caps would melt! .

Think of the poor electricity generators.

They have sufficient units on-line to meet the demand.

Everyone turns off, greatly reducing the demand causing a voltage surge in the power grid.

The suppliers reduce the generating capacity to match the load.

Everyone turns back on creating a demand peak.
The voltage falls as the suppliers struggle to cope, possible brownouts.

What a load of .........

Just reduce your standing load by being a little more energy efficient all the time.

that won't happen, the surplus electricity pumps the hydro electric water back up into the feeder dams so the enegy will still be there when its needed

Great idea but why limit it to only one night. I do it everyday.

Lighting in my house is kept to minimum all the time. I switch power off the microwave, TV, DVD and stereo every night before going to bed.

DO TRY.

Astrid,

I highly commend your thoughts and suggestion.

Like most others in the bush, we don't wholly depend on the power and subsequently regularly don't know if there is a blackout for a few hours apart from noticing the electronic clocks flashing.

Like Wongo, right now there's only 1 light on in the whole house, the TV turned on and my Mac. (we only have turned on what we need on)

I won't be doing anything differently as to what I always do.

But I don't get this whole thing, the fossils etc. have already been burned etc. to turn the turbines so what's been done has been done - the power has been generated and if I don't use it the bloke next door or across town will use it - it's already been generated so It's like when they had that farce on TV last year about how to cut emissions etc. on Ch 10. They said to drink less milk so that the cows make less methane. The milks already on the shelves at Coles!

Not denying global warming etc., but I think this whole thing of turning a light out is a little hard to believe. Flame me, tar me or throw a at me but I think some elments of this Global warming have been hijacked by the lefties.

No offence to your daughter at all Astrid.

Always only had turned on what I need no more.

accept the message in the spirit it was given.
no need to crush 14yo idealism.
The world will soon do it for you.

Astrid

Originally Posted by astrid

WORLDWIDE BLACKOUT
on saturday 29th there will be a turn off power all over the world from 8 pm to 9pm only one hour
TURN OFF EVERYTHING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

NO POWER, NO ELECTRICITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

REMEMBER THIS SATURDAY NO POWER

THE ICECAPS ARE MELTING!!!!!!

we will drown

all is doomed DOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOMED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Lauren

personally I think "earth hour" is a complete and utter farce

it will have absolutely ZERO impact, I wouldn't mind betting that it's overall impact will be NEGATIVE

• if you're on wind power, turning the lights off will have ZILCH impact
• if you're on nuclear power (much of Japan and Europe), again ZILCH
• if you're on hydro (well it takes at 10–15 minutes to get a hydro generator up to speed and about the same time to turn if it off so you might "save" about 30 mins of water which would probably spill over the dam anyway, so again ZILCH
• if you're coal fired, like most of Australia, given it takes something like 16 hours to turn a coal generating plant off and up to 36 hours to restart it the operators will leave it running flat out.
• AND all those candles that will make people feel warm and fizzy will just add to the CO2 load

and I haven't even started ranting


ian

The power off is only about awareness of the issue, it is not intended to have any physical effect. Also, we need idealists as much as we need pragmatists, probably more.

Stick to your guns Lauren

for your enthusiasm Lauren but don't stop with this. Read carefully what others have written, consider the responses and take the messages back to school and suggest to you teacher that maybe it would be a great subject for some further research and debate.

I think you will find that those who treat electrical appliances like Wongo has suggested probably achieve far more than people give them recognition for. Along this line, I think you will be surprised how much action a debate to this end will cause amoungst your classmates. Exploring and researching a subject like this to an end often causes people to act more responsibly without even realising it.

Keep up the crusade,
Mike

Originally Posted by astrid

accept the message in the spirit it was given.
no need to crush 14yo idealism.
The world will soon do it for you.

Astrid

Astrid

I applaud the idealism

I just wish it were directed towards something of substance rather than empty gestures


ian

Originally Posted by Groggy

The power off is only about awareness of the issue, it is not intended to have any physical effect. Also, we need idealists as much as we need pragmatists, probably more.

Stick to your guns Lauren

Thank you Groggy,
some of have our brains switched on

Astrid

I certainly didn’t intent to discourage little Lauren. What she tries to do is good and it shows she has a good heart and she cares.

BUT

She needs to take it to the next step. Put what she believes into practise.

Try this

Have showers for no longer than 10 minutes
Turn the lights off when not needed
Turn the computer off at night
Turn the hifi off at night
Try not to use hair dryer
Use iPod less
Use mobile phone less
Etc

My 2 girls are 6 and 2 and they are well trained.

Originally Posted by astrid

accept the message in the spirit it was given.
no need to crush 14yo idealism.
The world will soon do it for you.

Astrid

Astrid, I wasn't posting with that in mind, as I wrote. It's good that kids are aware of things. I agree with what Ian wrote and so too to what Groggy wrote. But I think people are being led to believe it will make a difference , to raise awareness - then that's good,