Lights out???

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 4:30pm #1

Will the ESB be turning off the street lights this evening as part of this "lets turn the lights off for an hour" campaign???

Alcatel · 28-03-2009 4:31pm

Earth hour? No, it's a bloody budget cut! We'll be like North Korea soon.

Ruu_Old · 28-03-2009 4:31pm

Yes.

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 4:33pm

Ruu wrote: »

Yes.

Are you sure??? I didn't think they would in case someone crashed a car or something in the dark and ended up suing the ESB...

Saibh · 28-03-2009 4:37pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

Are you sure??? I didn't think they would in case someone crashed a car or something in the dark and ended up suing the ESB...

All roads don't have street lights - once you leave a town/city, you are driving in the dark.

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 4:39pm

I was going to go up to the Dublin Mountains and see the city in darkness if they are turning off all the street lights...

Saibh · 28-03-2009 4:42pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

I was going to go up to the Dublin Mountains and see the city in darkness if they are turning off all the street lights...

But everything will be dark then if they turn the lights off - what will you actually see

Guy:Incognito · 28-03-2009 4:43pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

I was going to go up to the Dublin Mountains and see the city in darkness if they are turning off all the street lights...

Watch for my house. It'll be the one lit up like a stadium

banshee_bones · 28-03-2009 4:43pm

Saibh wrote: »

But everything will be dark then if they turn the lights off - what will you actually see

wow...thats mind blowing stuff maaaaaan.......:pac:

spadder · 28-03-2009 4:49pm

I Turn off the lights every night, usually about 11.30.
I don't really see what this stunt achieves

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 4:56pm

Saibh wrote: »

But everything will be dark then if they turn the lights off - what will you actually see

All the people who won't turn their lights off, there's always one!!!

Lollipops23 · 28-03-2009 4:58pm

tell me what happens when, at the end of Earth Hour, everybody rushes to put their lights back on...??won't it flood the grid or something??

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 5:05pm

Lollipops23 wrote: »

tell me what happens when, at the end of Earth Hour, everybody rushes to put their lights back on...??won't it flood the grid or something??

It'll be like Y2K all over again!

MadgeBadge · 28-03-2009 5:13pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

Are you sure??? I didn't think they would in case someone crashed a car or something in the dark and ended up suing the ESB...

I know, mad, that sh1t freaked me out the first time!!

Saibh wrote: »

But everything will be dark then if they turn the lights off - what will you actually see

I miss seeing the stars, I used to live in rural Wales and the stars were so much brighter there. It was beautiful.

Saibh · 28-03-2009 5:21pm

MadgeBadge wrote: »

I miss seeing the stars, I used to live in rural Wales and the stars were so much brighter there. It was beautiful.

Trip to the Dublin mountains mightn't be a waste of time then, he will have something to look at if there is no lights on

utick · 28-03-2009 5:22pm

Lollipops23 wrote: »

tell me what happens when, at the end of Earth Hour, everybody rushes to put their lights back on...??won't it flood the grid or something??

light turning on tax to pay for the bigger carbon footprint

My name is URL · 28-03-2009 5:24pm

Bad night to have this on, could Al Gore not have rescheduled it around our footbal international. Thoughtless bastard

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 5:25pm

I'll take a few pics of the city from the Hell Fire Club, if the weather is clear, you will get an excellent view from up there. I'll post the pics up here later...

cnocbui · 28-03-2009 5:35pm

I think all street lights should be turned off after 1:30am. I remember a time in Perth when this is exactly what happened. The sky was lit up with stars after the street lights went out. I remember getting up at about 4am to go outside my house in 1973 to see comet Kohoutek. It was a stunning sight, even from within a city. Try that from any city these days!

I reckon ever present street lights don't deter crime, I think they actually facilitate it.

Anthropogenic global warming is a crock of... so I for one, will not be regressing to the pre-industrialised past this evening.

Davy · 28-03-2009 5:44pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

Will the ESB be turning off the street lights this evening as part of this "lets turn the lights off for an hour" campaign???

I cant see how, they are fed from the same trafo as your house, their isnt a big switch for street lights only :pac:,, do you mind them turning off the power to everything for an hour??

fullstop · 28-03-2009 5:49pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

Are you sure??? I didn't think they would in case someone crashed a car or something in the dark and ended up suing the ESB...

Cars have lights now you know...

Snowie · 28-03-2009 6:04pm

Saibh wrote: »

Trip to the Dublin mountains mightn't be a waste of time then, he will have something to look at if there is no lights on

what like eye spy ?

Darragh29 · 28-03-2009 6:07pm

Davy wrote: »

I cant see how, they are fed from the same trafo as your house, their isnt a big switch for street lights only :pac:,, do you mind them turning off the power to everything for an hour??

Is it the local authority then that flips the switch? Are they turning off the lights tonight?

Davy · 28-03-2009 6:13pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

Is it the local authority then that flips the switch? Are they turning off the lights tonight?

No, they would have to turn out your lights too!(including sockets everything)

In the city the council own/manage the lights. They would have to go to each individual area and manually switch off each few lights at a time. Esb couldn't just switch them off without a special agreement because they have an unmetered supply, they wouldn't know where they stand. Still confused?

street lights will be turned off, not feasible to do so

Locamon · 28-03-2009 6:14pm

This thing is just so poorly thought out...let's turn out the lights at 8.30pm tonight and spend loads of money promoting it on TV and Radio

eh...hope no one takes it too seriously -imagine someone decided to turn out the lights in Croke Park at 8.30pm tonight?

Instead of a power down it will be one of the most lit up Saturday's of the year.

utick · 28-03-2009 7:04pm

i think i will hold a celebration for the wonderful invention of electricity, by turning everything on for the hour

minxie · 28-03-2009 7:12pm

its only an hour folks....

Firefox10 · 28-03-2009 7:44pm

I think people should do something more meaningful rather than this stunt.:rolleyes: What is this ment to acheive exactly.

Purple Gorilla · 28-03-2009 7:51pm

Firefox10 wrote: »

I think people should do something more meaningful rather than this stunt.:rolleyes: What is this ment to acheive exactly.

They say every light off is a vote. They are hoping to get a billion "votes" to get more countries to sign up to that Copenhagen agreement thingy that will replace the Kyoto Protocol

entropi · 28-03-2009 7:54pm

Darragh29 wrote: »

I'll take a few pics of the city from the Hell Fire Club, if the weather is clear, you will get an excellent view from up there. I'll post the pics up here later...

And all the screams of "aaannnto" and "here you, have ye got a smoke bud?" from up there on a weekend night should be fun:P

And back on topic: I think they are turning off the lights at the Customs House and something else, its up to the population as to whether they join in or not...