[Terrapreta] Earth Hour a dumb waste of time

[Michael Bailes]

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> This is from the earth hour website
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> On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off
> their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. If the greenhouse reduction achieved
> in the Sydney CBD during Earth Hour was sustained for a year, it would be
> equivalent to taking 48,616 cars off the road for a year.
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Do they think that power stations can just tun off their generators at a
flick of a switch?  Most generators take over 4 or more, hours to wind
down."Earth
Hour" must cause havoc at power stations and not save and ounce of CO2.
Perhaps power could have been re-routed to other cities when it was just one
city turning off the power. But with everyone doing it.. .?

And how much CO2 do millions of candles produce.?

This just displays the total ignorance most people have about where and how
their energy is produced.

Annoying and sad especially when  everyone could go out and bury a kilo of
charcoal.


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-- 
Michael the Archangel
What a piece of work is a man! how noble in reason!
how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how
express and admirable! in action how like an angel!
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