Re: Turn off your lights? Earth Hour
but... if everyone in the whole world does it... and uses no power whatsoever, it would make a whole whopping 0.0001% difference in the annual energy consumption rate. Well, not quite that much even, because all the furnaces will just have to work that much harder when they kick back on to heat the house back up, or the A/C to cool it back down if you're in a warm area, etc... refridgerators will work harder, hot water heaters will have to work harder, a whole lot of things will have to work harder when they are turned back on to get back to normal, so really it's more like 0.00001%. Oh, and really you'll be travelling the same distances that day as you would have otherwise, so it's even less, more like 0.000001% difference in energy consumption. Woo hoo, we're savin' the planet now!
The PR campaign is good, but the results are laking. They need to have this kind of PR campaign to do something that will make a real difference, like adding insulation to our homes, or switching from an incadesent to some sort of low energy light bulb for at least one bulb each... or something like that. OR... and here's something we can all probably relate to, pick up a piece of trash that's not yours day... how many times have you been out at the lake and been disgusted with how much trash is floating around out there?
