[Terrapreta] Earth Hour a dumb waste of time

[Kevin Chisholm]

Dear Michael

It will never work.

You can't watch a Hockey Game on TV with a candle!

Anyone who has tried to backlight a TV tube with a candle knows that the 
accelerator coil casts an annoying shadow.
Best wishes,

Kevin ;-)

Michael Bailes wrote:
>
>     This is from the earth hour website
>
>         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.
>
>
>
>  
> 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.
>
>
>
> -- 
> 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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