I hate you subby.

This is like trying to drive down gas prices by not buying gas from Exxon Mobil stations.

That's a bad example. If everyone was nice to each other, we could solve world violence.

While the solution won't do anything, it's just to raise awareness.

Of course, it'll be cancelled by those asswipes that promote 'carbon belch day' like they did last year.

(P.S. Asswipe is WAYYYYYYYYYY too weak a word)

/preemptive

Ah yes...the STI...the last bastion of reason and sensibility.

/mourns the loss of the PI
//may the globe spin forever!

I don't see how this solves anything. Your fridge will use more energy to get cold again and you'll just TiVo the show and watch an extra hour later. You're not saving anything, hippie

I'm going to do my part by kicking an anti-nuclear activist in the balls.

During that hour I'll be burning tires in my fireplace.

FigPucker: Ah yes...the STI...the last bastion of reason and sensibility.

/mourns the loss of the PI
//may the globe spin forever!

Syphilis?

Good, that's more power for me. Finally, I can try my mind control ray without fear of overloading the grid!

You realize that your best case scenario involves shutting down a large portion of the grid as demand drops dramatically in a very short time. This will destabilize the grid and then spike it an hour later when everything comes back online at once.

Perhaps that is your plan...

In many ways Enron was ahead of its time in preventing global warming.

For every light you turn off, I'm turning on 3.

I need to copyright that.

I don't have a car, I walk as much as possible, I live in a small flat, etc...I have very little carbon footprint. I'm not doing anything above and beyond this for any reason that doesn't involve actual money.

I'm going to burn a tire in my back yard this afternoon.

I have a better idea. Let's get rid of our government that promotes illiteracy, is anti-science to the point of actively crippling the field in the world community, and is more interested in promoting Wall Street as Ponzi scheme than educating it's children; and replace it with one that is interested in funding the shiat out of all things science and basic research, is heavily invested in the education of our children, and wants to rebuild the sadly neglected infrastructure of the country rather than trade pieces of paper for ever increasing amounts of money. That would do much more than some silly publicity stunt. Wait, what?

This crap again. Solving another major world problem with a token gesture.

Remember 1985, when all the radio stations on Earth were supposed to play We Are The World simultaneously to help alleviate hunger in Africa?

I was a DJ on the air at that moment at a C&W station. Didn't break format to play it.

/heartless S.O.B.

Problem: global warming. Subby's solution: Buy a bigger SUV and ridicule anyone who tries to do anything about the problem.

Problem: Global Warming
Solution: Get rid of Daylight Savings Time

That extra hour of sunlight is what's heating up the world

Want to join in on the road?

Turn off you car headlights!

Why not make it to "Change all your incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs day"? It would be more useful in the long run and save a greater amount of power, and money.

/Just sayin'

This plan doesn't work - the power will still be created; not to use it on one day will just create a momentary surplus which won't be saved for later.

If you really want to contribute, unplug your cable converter box when not watching TV on a regular basis - they draw more power than a fridge.

Spanky_McFarksalot: For every light you turn off, I'm turning on 3.

I need to copyright that.

Think Maddox beat you to it by about 7 years:

Remember: "raised awareness" makes me so much better than you.

/typing this on a dual-screen monitor.

jake3988: (P.S. Asswipe is WAYYYYYYYYYY too weak a word)

That's pronounced "azz-WE-pay"

So when I turn the lights out for an hour, can I hop in my '65 Wildcat convertible and take the scenic route to the local 5Guys for a cheeseburger? Or am I just supposed to stay home and sit in the dark?

/all leather cow interior
//no whaleskin hubcaps, tho'

KIA: You realize that your best case scenario involves shutting down a large portion of the grid as demand drops dramatically in a very short time. This will destabilize the grid and then spike it an hour later when everything comes back online at once.

Perhaps that is your plan...

Yup, think of all the motors restarting (air conditioning compressors and blowers, refrigerator compressors, etc.) at a spike draw four times the running amperage unless they are "soft start" motors. Even those use twice the power starting. Kind of like watching the pressure drop in water systems during half-time of the Super Bowl. Bzzzzttt!

You could probably save more by taking the bulb out of your refrigerator. Seriously.

Subby is reductionist, structure or gtfo.

/weak geekdom?

Herb Utsmelz: I was a DJ on the air at that moment at a C&W station. Didn't break format to play it.

/heartless S.O.B.

You were already playing in the toilet. One turd more or less wouldn't make a difference.

desidog: This plan doesn't work - the power will still be created; not to use it on one day will just create a momentary surplus which won't be saved for later.

If you really want to contribute, unplug your cable converter box when not watching TV on a regular basis - they draw more power than a fridge.

Are you serious about hat power draw? I had no idea.

Yeah - when I first heard of this I though it was the most idiotic cockamamie thing I ever heard. It won't do a damn thing, not even raise awareness.

KIA: You realize that your best case scenario involves shutting down a large portion of the grid as demand drops dramatically in a very short time. This will destabilize the grid and then spike it an hour later when everything comes back online at once.

Perhaps that is your plan...



And a cunning plan it is!

thelordofcheese: FigPucker: Ah yes...the STI...the last bastion of reason and sensibility.

/mourns the loss of the PI
//may the globe spin forever!

Syphilis?

Seattle Times Intelligencer

/never really got the Intelligencer bit
//doesn't even look like it's spelled right
///then again...neither does 'Seattle'

Problem: global warming.

Solution A: Throw money at leftist politicians and it'll go away.

Solution B: There's nothing you can do, as the sun has increased solar flare activity thigs will warm for a time, now things are cooling down. SFTU and GBTW.

Solution C: ???

Solution D: Profit! (see A:)

DarthBrooks: Remember: "raised awareness" makes me so much better than you.

/typing this on a dual-screen monitor.

Lightweight...

LonMead

"...Or am I just supposed to stay home and sit in the dark?"

Stay home and contemplate your environmentally friendly awesomeness.

Problem: global warming. Solution: Turn off your power for an hour on 3/28

This is a Great Idea!

It will get rid of everyone on life support, and lower medical costs for everyone. Sweet.



Also:



Need to use this idea now.

//If global warming is true, we can't accomplish anything until we stop the population from growing exponentially, and not one politician will even address that in the US

This is farking stupid. It's not like the power companies can spin down their generators or stop feeding their boilers. They will keep them spun up to meet the predictive load for that time of day and burning the coal to keep the boilers running. They can't shut this shiat on or off to meet real-time demand. This is exactly why they joined generation stations together on a grid so power can be shifted around to where it's needed instead of wasted.

lilbjorn: Problem: global warming. Subby's solution: Buy a bigger SUV and ridicule anyone who tries to do anything about the problem.

+100. I am turning on all my electric devices during earth hour. in fact I might forget and leave them running all night. crank up my 5hp compressor, leave the valve open on the tank. place a brick on the gas pedal of all 3 of my vehicles leave them running.

symbolic stance against global warming

Ahh...symbolic stances, when doing something actually useful would be too much work.

Switch from plug to battery at the Internet cafe.

Net waste of energy as discharging the battery and then charging it again is less efficient than using the power directly. Good job idiots.

Also the dramatic change in load on the power grid others have mentioned. If everyone, or even a significant percentage of people, did this the result would be disastrous. If power plants had to take emergency measures to reduce output it could take days to recover.

Reverend J: Why not make it to "Change all your incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs day"? It would be more useful in the long run and save a greater amount of power, and money.

/Just sayin'

Now how would that make a nice media picture?

itdood: This is farking stupid. It's not like the power companies can spin down their generators or stop feeding their boilers. They will keep them spun up to meet the predictive load for that time of day and burning the coal to keep the boilers running. They can't shut this shiat on or off to meet real-time demand. This is exactly why they joined generation stations together on a grid so power can be shifted around to where it's needed instead of wasted.

Even worse, they might even have to shut them down if the load drops off too badly.

Remember the big power outage a few years back? It didn't take long to isolate the problem, but it took almost a week to bring everything back online (especially the nuclear reactors) bit by bit because it all had to be shut down. You can't keep generating 1000's of megawatts without anywhere for it to go.

Reverend J: Why not make it to "Change all your incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs day"? It would be more useful in the long run and save a greater amount of power, and money.

/Just sayin'

I heard in the nanny state there are people there with light sensitivity disorder, those fluourescent lights are giving them rashes and causing seizures, but apparanly there is some eu law that none of the stores stock incandescent lights. lol this is just fun!!!

Global warming? When it was 30 below 0 here in January and 20 below 0 in February in Minnesota as well as 30 degrees in Florida (25-35 degrees below average in all cases), you never heard a word about global warming. Now that spring is here they all come out of their shells and scream the earth is going to come to an end.

Can we burn activists in the tire-fire too? Just for the enjoyment factor, of course. Can't eat the nasty things.

Reverend J: Why not make it to "Change all your incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs day"?

yes! we need more mercury in the water table! go for it!

FTFA: Switch from plug to battery at the Internet cafe.

where does this genius think the power comes from to charge the battery? fairies?

do something useful: unplug stuff. get rid of a car. walk.

Reverend J: Why not make it to "Change all your incandescent bulbs to compact fluorescent bulbs day"? It would be more useful in the long run and save a greater amount of power, and money.

/Just sayin'

I can't afford those expensive CFL bulbs; I spend too much on gas for my SUV. When is the government going to send me a voucher to buy some?

the cheerleader who got away: Can we burn activists in the tire-fire too? Just for the enjoyment factor, of course. Can't eat the nasty things.

You're right. Have you ever tried to clean one of them?

Cue the darksky association in 3 2... oh look! Stars.