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Old 29-03-2008, 07:55 PM   #1
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Default Will you be participating in 'Earth Hour' ?

Tomorrow night at 8pm people will be flicking their off switches. Will you be one of those people?

I'll keep my power usage to a minimum (like I normally do) but won't be turning all my lights off.

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Old 29-03-2008, 07:57 PM   #2
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lol i thought it was tonight ??
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:00 PM   #3
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LOL it is :

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Old 29-03-2008, 08:00 PM   #4
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doesnt look like i am.
infact i even found a few more appliances i can plug in.
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:04 PM   #5
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Yea probably not, I live on top of a hill over looking part of Wagga so it will be good to see if many people do and see if it looks much different.
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nah gonna have a few things going but my lights are off at 8, five nights of the week anyway, and 3months power is under $200 even with electric stove and electric hot water so I think I do pretty good without participating in a gimmick that has minimal effect the enviroment
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I'm setting up my flood lights around the front yard right now.
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:10 PM   #8
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if they want to see the real effect get india and china to turn their lights off for 1hour..
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:14 PM   #9
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I'm setting up my flood lights around the front yard right now.

As has been posted, we too hardly have anything plugged in and if it is and not in use its turned off at the wall and most lights are off by 7:30pm anyway. Not for the envioronment just to save afew pennys.
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:15 PM   #10
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For every lightswitch we turn off, I'm sure someone else turns 100 on elsewhere in the world.

The only lights we leave on at work are the external lights for security purposes.

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Old 29-03-2008, 08:20 PM   #11
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i love how the media are all over this yet right now i can go and watch any channel i want.
good to see they stopped broadcasting for an hour.
hypocrites.
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What a surprise, a thread full of posts by secondary school kids.
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:20 PM   #13
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Not for the envioronment just to save afew pennys.
That's the only reason we should do it, money is better in our back pocket rather than the power companies.


Been and gone here in NZ, forgot about it... but I am using eco bulbs.
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:26 PM   #14
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What a surprise, a thread full of posts by secondary school kids.
where did you get that idea from, check the profiles, you will find only 2 members that posted under 20 and they would have finished high school anyway from their ages.

to assume makes an *** out of U and ME
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:28 PM   #15
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It's the biggest waste of time.
While all those participating are feeling all warm and gooey inside for doing their bit for the environment, the truth is turning off your lights for one hour a year is pointless.
Wanna have some impact, implement some long term changes.

And AUXRVIII.... I've been out of school a looong time :P
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:32 PM   #16
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well how does this work for different states, are we all starting physical different times or same time.

or all at 8 at local time,

so nsw goes then comes back on, and then qld goes
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not thought out
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What a surprise, a thread full of posts by secondary school kids.
Please elaborate.

and feel free to explain how turning off lights for an hour is going to make any more than three fifth of f all difference. Is it raising awareness of 'global warming' where it needs too. i.e. India china and cows *****? I'm sitting on my couch freezing my off. bring on 'global warming' I say.

After all if your such a dogooder why do you have a computer on?

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well its now 8 and all my lights are off, but stuffed if I'm gonna shower in the dark before I head out

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Please elaborate.

and feel free to explain how turning off lights for an hour is going to make any more than three fifth of f all difference. Is it raising awareness of 'global warming' where it needs too. i.e. India china and cows *****? I'm sitting on my couch freezing my off. bring on 'global warming' I say.
you have good points (we all know something needs to be done but for real not just a back-pat token gesture that does 2/3rds of stuff all) but the thing that interests me more is how he nabbed the lot of us as being secondary school kids,
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:35 PM   #19
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The same amount of power is being generated, creating the same amount of pollution, it's just not being used, so "earth hour" doing SFA.
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Should I also go and buy a Prius that over its short working life is worse for the environment than a jeep. Thats counting manufacture and disposal based on a battery life of I think 6 years.
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Ive made sure our house is lit up like a fire. I may just quickly duck out of the hosue and go for a drive in the Buick...
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Old 29-03-2008, 08:52 PM   #22
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isnt it great that 3 people have said "YES, i will participate in Earth Hour" yet it was in that hour they have posted on the internet.
thanks for helping out.
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Please elaborate.

and feel free to explain how turning off lights for an hour is going to make any more than three fifth of f all difference. Is it raising awareness of 'global warming' where it needs too. i.e. India china and cows *****? I'm sitting on my couch freezing my off. bring on 'global warming' I say.

After all if your such a dogooder why do you have a computer on?
Maybe you have missed the introduction of notebooks which run on battery power for a number of hours?
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yes now i have to explain to the missus why i managed to pee everywhere but in the toilet!! damn earth hour
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Quote: What a surprise, a thread full of posts by secondary school kids.

Come on mate a couple are definitely funny and just because they don’t seem to share your point of view does not mean they are acting like a secondary school kids.
I’m for the environment but I like the big V8’s so I really cant go preaching, If you want to preach about 'Earth Hour' you had better be driving an electric buzz box, (which would be powered by a coal fired power station in WA), and only drive to work, shops and other necessity drives. Otherwise walk.
If you want to turn off your power for earth hour, do so but don’t slam others for having a laugh.
Personally I find a lot of the people who preach the environment / greenpeace etc. seem to drive crap old 4cyl. cars that don’t get serviced & cost the environment much more in poor emissions and fuel used to travel than either of my V8’s.:

TadKa I'm setting up my flood lights around the front yard right now.

Mongoose Ive made sure our house is lit up like a fire.

davway doesnt look like i am.
infact i even found a few more appliances i can plug in.
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was flicking through the channels and sky news had a special reports crossing to different people. I wonder how many lights a sat link is equal too. in one shot they had the studio behind them with dozens of monitors. Just looking through another forum and this post describes how stupid some people are. do they really think this is not using power? what happens when they plug it into charge. such muppets.

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Maybe you have missed the introduction of notebooks which run on battery power for a number of hours?
AHAHA you moron. really doing your bit for the environment. ahaha. does your laptop get recharged by winding it up?
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Its called earth hour, but is this a world thing or just in oz? Havent heard anything about it up here.
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AHAHA you moron. really doing your bit for the environment. ahaha. does your laptop get recharged by winding it up?
you havent heard of the Laptop fairy have you?
leave your flat laptop on the kitchen table and in the middle of the night they come and take it away..............
maybe i need to move
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AHAHA you moron. really doing your bit for the environment. ahaha. does your laptop get recharged by winding it up?
It's a "lights out" earth hour, not an "switch off and unplug everything" earth hour. I didn't make any mention of support for or against on the issue.
I was interested in reading what people were doing to contrbute. I guess I wasn't surprised with what I read.
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