Earth Hour

[Roland]

Earth hour is also in South Africa. So i guess it will also happen in the Uk.

[Type 97 Chi-ha]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

</unnecessary history lesson>

I mentioned it only to show the original tree huggers were not the hippie-dippie types. In fact they were ordinary citizens who were saying, "These are OUR trees and you can't cut them down!"

[Voltron]

In 2004, the Earth, by way of Indian Ocean and temperamental tectonics, washed away over 200,000 souls in one of the greatest deluges we have ever seen. Today, people are begging to save the murdering wench we so affectionately call "Mother Earth." Bah! I've been burning coals on a battery for a week and salted my lawn in protest. Let her burn, baby!

[Spitfire]

I find this pointless. My energy bill is less then 30 a month with 3 of us living in my apartment. I keep all my lights off during the day and open a window and at night I only have lights on in rooms I'm in.

If people want to conserve energy they just need to stop being stupid and turn lights off when they leave rooms or open the blinds instead of turning lights on. I personally get annoyed when someone turns a light on in a room with sunlight obviously seeping in through the windows. They also need to stop leaving crap plugged in over night to charge. Not only does that destroy your battery but it wastes even more power. So does leaving the TV on all night. TVs have sleep timers, I fall asleep with my TV on every night, it's not difficult.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

If people want to conserve energy they just need to stop being stupid and turn lights off when they leave rooms or open the blinds instead of turning lights on. I personally get annoyed when someone turns a light on in a room with sunlight obviously seeping in through the windows.

Not all of us live in states where sunlight is abundant. At least I hope you're not like my dad... whenever I turn on a light at his house, unless it's pitch black outside, he yells at everyone.

TVs have sleep timers

I obviously have old televisions.

[Spitfire]

Originally Posted by The Ninjinister

Not all of us live in states where sunlight is abundant. At least I hope you're not like my dad... whenever I turn on a light at his house, unless it's pitch black outside, he yells at everyone.

You could switch to all energy saver bulbs as well if you run into that problem but unless your only awake at night, especially during the summer, it's not going to be so dark outside everyday that you had to have lights on all the time. Those energy saver bulbs also save money on your electric bill and aren't as annoying to white balance to when you film.

I obviously have old televisions.

You might. I used to have an old TV from I think 1960 or 70 that didn't have one but every TV I've used since has had it. Some DVDs players don't though, modern ones even. My old Panasonic DVD player has one and my newer Sony one doesn't. My receiver does though.

[Jester]

I had a DVD player that had a sleep timer, a cheapy Wal-mart Durabrand player...when I "upgraded" to the Durabrand "Home Theater Kit" the new DVD didn't. I figured the same compant would have the same feature. I loved the DVD sleep timer.

[Ninjinister]

Originally Posted by Spitfire

You might. I used to have an old TV from I think 1960 or 70 that didn't have one but every TV I've used since has had it. Some DVDs players don't though, modern ones even. My old Panasonic DVD player has one and my newer Sony one doesn't. My receiver does though.

I have one TV from the '90's and one from about 2003. My 2003 one might have that option and I just haven't tinkered with it, but I know the '90's one doesn't for a fact.

I'm not home most of the day during the week, so I don't have anything on mostly. It's just the fact that I live in Washington, where on days like today, where there is sunshine, is rare.

[Machias Banshee]

While Earth hour is a noble effort, I think if everyone just cut down a little of energy usage every day, that could do more of a difference than this one hour during the year. But with so many electronics in use these days, all needing their batteries charged and whatnot... I'm not surprised that many people didn't take part in it.


We didn't take part in the earth hour, just cuz... well, we've always got the lights off. We've usually got one or two lights on at Most during the evening - for the entire house. Plus, there's some things we just Can't turn off - Mom's O2 machine, for example. But otherwise, the house is 80% dark most of the time.

As for light bulbs, we don't use the 'energysaver' bulbs... if you break an incandescant bulb, you gotta worry about broken glass. You break one of those... you've got yourself a mercury situation that requires HAZMAT services.