Earth Hour 2011 - General - Facepunch Forum

Earth Hour is a global event organized by WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature, also known as World Wildlife Fund) and is held on the last Saturday of March annually, asking households and businesses to turn off their non-essential lights and other electrical appliances for one hour to raise awareness towards the need to take action on climate change. Earth Hour was conceived by WWF and The Sydney Morning Herald in 2007, when 2.2 million residents of Sydney participated by turning off all non-essential lights. Following Sydney's lead, many other cities around the world adopted the event in 2008. Earth Hour 2011 will take place on March 26, 2011 from 8:30 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., at participants' respective local time. [media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMwArLkF0oU[/media]

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I've been doing my bit turning off the lights while watching Youtube videos. But wait a second no Tv and Xbox for a hour? I can't promise that.

I can do that, while my powers off I can just play Mine- Fuck

I'm going to run a heater and cooler at the same time in protest. I pay taxes, invest in renewable energy, instead of [B]subsiding coal[/B], and then you fuckheads have the nerve to tell me I pollute too much because I enjoy the wonders of a modern world. Fuck you people, seriously.

Candles are worse for the environment.

turning every appliance and light in my house on for that hour

60 minutes to :fappery: in the dark win!

[QUOTE=Contag;28808602]I'm going to run a heater and cooler at the same time in protest. I pay taxes, invest in renewable energy, instead of [B]subsiding coal[/B], and then you fuckheads have the nerve to tell me I pollute too much because I enjoy the wonders of a modern world. Fuck you people, seriously.[/QUOTE] Not to mention is fucks electric companies in the ass when everyone turns all their stuff back on at once. I have a friend who works for the Hydro company here and apparently even certain TV show times cause a lot of trouble.

[QUOTE=AlphaAGENT;28808709]turning every appliance and light in my house on for that hour[/QUOTE] including your electronic dildo collection?

And risk getting robbed? No thank

I haven't had any lights on this whole entire week :buddy:! But my eyes are starting to sting.

Climate change is bullshit. A volcano creates more emissions than every car on the planet in a year, so to prove how bullshit it is, I am going to buy 10,000 100W incandescent light bulbs for Earth Hour.

Earth hour is bullshit. Every time I go to the city to experience it some assholes will still keep their lights on in their high rises and I won't be able to see the stars unless we have a major power out like in 2003: [img]http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/11000/11982/NE_US_OLS2003227_lrg.jpg[/img]

Once again this does more harm than good, i don't know why they keep doing this even if it is just a message since many people turning their power on at once just fucks over the grid making it worse.

No. Keeping them off for 1 hour won't change anything, so why bother?

What if the local power supply is green energy like nuclear/wind/hydro/solar? Keep your lights on I say.

[QUOTE=User;28811546]What if the local power supply is green energy like nuclear/wind/hydro/solar? Keep your lights on I say.[/QUOTE] If you're running on renewable power sources then obviously it's different, but the object of Earth Hour isn't in itself to save an hour's worth of electricity, it's to raise awareness of how easy it can be to live without the lights in your home for hours each day. I can understand people who want to protest it because it does harm the power grid by bottlenecking the power supply, but for people to say "I'M GOING TO TURN ON EVERY LIGHT IN MY HOUSE", you're just being a nob and/or trying to be an edgy teenager. Why the fuck would you want an initiative to cut carbon emissions and spread awareness of how easy it is to cut down on unrenewable energy to fail? That's fucking illogical and you're just being narcissistic pricks if you'll actively make the plan more futile.

I'm gonna stick my dick in an electrical socket in protest of earth day [editline]26th March 2011[/editline] Actually it'd make more sense for me to stick my dick in the dirt. Fuck the Earth

$5 says the Westboro Baptist Church will be there with strobe lights.

Uninterruptible power supply :smug:

Oh yippee, now I can turn the power off on Youtube.

[QUOTE=Latency;28809972]Not to mention is fucks electric companies in the ass when everyone turns all their stuff back on at once.[/QUOTE] Yep, when everyone turns their shit back on after the hour, the generator can cark itself.

Geothermal energy wins.

The only light in my room is coming from my PC.

Oh no! I forgot all about it

[QUOTE=Chekko;28814692]The only light in my room is coming from my PC.[/QUOTE] Business as usual.

But what happens when everyone turn everything back on when the hour ends? Doesn't that consume more energy than just having everything on?

[QUOTE=Mooe94;28814845]But what happens when everyone turn everything back on when the hour ends? Doesn't that consume more energy than just having everything on?[/QUOTE] Yeah, read up, it's not good for power consumption to raise so rapidly.

It's not about how much power is saved, It's to show we can all unite and come together for a common cause, if Earth Hour can bring at least 1.3 billion people together imagine what else we could achieve?