Who is participating in Earth Hour 2008?

Question

It's March 29....We all turn off our lights for one hour - and it's now a global event! I will be doing it :)

http://www.earthhour.org/

Answer 1

i will....i like how people are finally ecomeing aware that that we are dependent on the earth and that its not the other way around =]

Answer 2

How about no... I'll put on all of my electronics and lights just to make my point....

The true science says that it is the Sun that is causing most of the recent warming that we have been hearing about.

Carbon Dioxide (CO2) is only accountable for less than 5% of greenhouse gases and we only make about 5% of that. (About 90-95% of Greenhouse Gases is Water Vapor)

The reason for increased CO2 is because as the oceans become heated, they cannot hold as much as they could if they were cooler, so the oceans release the excess into the atmosphere. From what I hear, the oceans can hold many times more energy and heat then the air. This meaning that the atmosphere should have very little effect on the oceans and that the sun or perhaps the Earth itself is heating up the surface since those are two of the only things that could heat our vast oceans.

Also, the Earth hasn’t warmed in nearly a decade but has actually fallen and it has fallen greatly within the past 2 years. Many scientists believe we are about to go through another little ice age.

http://www.dailytech.com/Solar+Activity+...

http://en.rian.ru/russia/20060825/531436...

Many scientists are skeptical about Anthropogenic Global Warming.

These are some resources:

http://sepp.org/policy%20declarations/he...

http://www.globalwarmingheartland.org/Ar...



Al Gore had a chart in his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" that showed the similarities of Carbon Dioxide and temperature. The thing that he doesn't tell you is that there is a gap in which the temperature rises before the CO2 which should be the exact opposite if his theory is correct. Watch “The Great Global Warming Swindle”

Polar bears are NOT being endangered but actually the exact opposite.

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/north/story/200...

That is my point of view on the issue and I strongly encourage you to watch "The Great Global Warming Swindle" (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=... all the way through even if you don't want to. It is a great source of information and if you want to know the truth, you need to see both sides of the story.

Another great resource is http://z4.invisionfree.com/Popular_Techn...

Answer 3

Worldemp . .  has been reading a lot of lies promoted by big business.  Just the same I think this Earth Hour thing could actually be a waste of energy - here's why.

Have any of those promoting this idea heard of the term "spinning reserve"? Have they asked power generation engineers? If they have, have they ignored the advice they got?

You can't turn a thermal power station steam turbine on and off like you would a car engine. Because of thermal stress when warming up you keep the thing hot when it's hot and you have to pass steam through it to do so even if it is not being used. If you let it get cold it takes many hours to get it up to operating temperature. These things run at temperatures like 1000C and more.

The power station operators know that if this idea was taken up by a large majority they would have to keep turbines spinning anyway. That takes steam and producing steam takes coal / oil / uranium.

Did you know that when there is a massively popular TV show on, power station operators start gas turbines (like jet engines) just before the end of the show because they know that when it finishes thousands of people will get up and "put the kettle on", turn on lights in bathroom and bedroom, take hot showers and open refrigerators which then start running soon after?

Gas turbines are less efficient than coal fired turbines, that is why they are only used for load peaks. Less efficient means they use more fuel and produce more carbon dioxide for the same power output.

Meanwhile there is any amount of industrial plant that has to run 24 / 365 and municipal stuff like sewer pumps and water supply pumps which have to run about all the time too.

So more than likely at the end of the "Earth hour" power stations will have to put on extra megawatts to cover for everyone turning the lights back on but they will have to keep their main turbines running anyway.

Outside the power station, sudden changes in load are the absolute bane of power grids and cause all sorts of problems like temporary blackouts, over and under voltages and in extreme cases alternators acting as motors and trying to drive their turbines if the production from one station gets out of phase with the production from another.

This Earth Hour is a diversion from the things that really need to be done. If we really wanted to save energy we could start by legislating that all supermarket freezers and chiller have doors, and that they close the shop no later than 9pm. The lighting in supermarkets uses more power than a long street of houses and the refrigerators and air conditioning use even more. That's only the start of many things that could be done.

Answer 4

i am!

i just found out and im trying ot get everyone from my school involved

=]

Answer 5

I will by turning all of my lights on and setting them to full power, turning on my stove and boiling some water for tea and microwaving some serious popcorn.  Then I'll take a nice long hot shower and go run my garage doors up and down a few times.

Answer 6

I will be participating by turning on all of my lights, cranking up the AC, and creating a CO2 footprint the size of Rhode Island.