Earth Hour: What will/did you do?

Xavi6 · 29-03-2008 01:21PM #1

So I just had Earth Hour there and I have to say it nearly killed me. No internet, no tv, no playstation......longest 60 mins ever! Luckily the missus was here for a bit of the old hows your father after we had dinner so it wasn't so bad.

Anyway, what will you do? Anyone who's out I presume will carry on as normal in pubs or whatever but those of you who will be at home? Who's gonna turn off the Premiership? How many Earth Hour babies will there be?

MrJoeSoap · 29-03-2008 02:20PM

May I be the first to say...

Yore Ma.

mike65 · 29-03-2008 02:35PM

I'm going to sit in the bright warmth and feel guilty.

Mike

KdjaCL · 29-03-2008 02:37PM

Download like a mofo the contention ratio should be in my favour for an hour :cool:

kdjac

tolosenc · 29-03-2008 02:47PM

Work...

Sanjuro · 29-03-2008 03:03PM

I have earth hours every night from about 1am til 8am the next morning. So I don't really see the point in doing it in the middle of the day.

strawberryb0y · 29-03-2008 03:07PM

Looks like google are doin something.
http://www.google.ie/
not sure how much energy they'll save though

DEmeant0r · 29-03-2008 03:09PM

Turn off the premiership? I thought Earth hour was just the lights?

cormie · 29-03-2008 03:20PM

I'll be taking part in this with VanTasks by replacing all bulbs in my van with candles for one hour. Can't blame me if I run you over:pac:

Wertz · 29-03-2008 03:57PM

I'll be dancing on the Earth's grave.

Voodu Child · 29-03-2008 04:17PM

I've synchronised my house lights with my blink-rate. No sense in having all the lights on when my eyes are closed :pac:

mukki · 29-03-2008 04:23PM

its all cfl bulbs in this house, and i only have the hall light and the room i'm in's light on

can't do much better then that

Dizzyblonde · 29-03-2008 04:24PM

I'll turn off all the lights and light the fire. I'm wondering if it's worth it though since the people who light their houses up like Santa's Grotto at Christmas will just use up all the power we save

Caoimhín · 29-03-2008 04:26PM

Such a f*ukin waste of time, just to spite the Greenies i'm going out to the back garden to burn a few tyres.:mad:

sebastianlieken · 29-03-2008 06:24PM

lol:D

know what ya shud do!!!, set ur house on fire, thatl surely learn em!:D:D:D

lafors · 29-03-2008 06:49PM

Dizzyblonde wrote: »

I'll turn off all the lights and light the fire. I'm wondering if it's worth it though since the people who light their houses up like Santa's Grotto at Christmas will just use up all the power we save

So you're going to turn off your lights and light the fire......so you're going to pump out more pollutants out instead of less (which is the idea of using less power), well done :P

btw...I'm only messing, I'm going to go driving with my lights off instead

Jello · 29-03-2008 06:58PM

I fell asleep there for a couple of hours with no lights/tv/computer/etc on. That better count.

TPD · 29-03-2008 06:59PM

I saw the google page then turned the brightness on my screen way up. No way im letting them bastards conserve my power! :P

5starpool · 29-03-2008 07:01PM

Must make sure to leave all the lights, tellys and computers on when I go out tonight.

The guy · 29-03-2008 07:02PM

strawberryb0y wrote: »

Looks like google are doin something.
http://www.google.ie/
not sure how much energy they'll save though

I thought on LCDmonitors it required more energy to produce black.

29-03-2008 07:05PM

I'm going to turn on everything electrical in my house. Just for the sake of it.

toiletduck · 29-03-2008 07:17PM

Washing my clothes at 40 ftw.

Jumpy · 29-03-2008 07:21PM

The guy wrote: »

I thought on LCDmonitors it required more energy to produce black.

Heh it does, the backlight doesnt turn off, but it does have to block it out with black.

Gran Hermano · 29-03-2008 08:16PM

Xavi6 wrote: »

So I just had Earth Hour there and I have to say it nearly killed me. No internet, no tv, no playstation......longest 60 mins ever! Luckily the missus was here for a bit of the old hows your father after we had dinner so it wasn't so bad.

What did you do for the other 58 minutes?

randylonghorn · 29-03-2008 08:59PM

Gran Hermano wrote: »

What did you do for the other 58 minutes?

Got on his knees and begged, probably!

ninty9er · 29-03-2008 09:00PM

I'm signing off right now!

Steve.Pseudonym · 29-03-2008 09:12PM

I'm not doing anything, it's a stupid idea that won't help anyone or do anything for the environment. Google only turned black because it's in vogue to be eco-friendly these days. Stuff like this annoys the hell out of me, if you want to slow climate change stop driving your car, otherwise shut up.

smemon · 29-03-2008 09:25PM

Steve.Pseudonym wrote: »

I'm not doing anything, it's a stupid idea that won't help anyone or do anything for the environment. Google only turned black because it's in vogue to be eco-friendly these days. Stuff like this annoys the hell out of me, if you want to slow climate change stop driving your car, otherwise shut up.

+1

If you want to stop global warming, build your own wind turbine, cut off your outside electricity supply and get a bike.

Otherwise, stop you're a hypocrite :pac:

mukki · 29-03-2008 09:26PM

forgot about this

going to turn the pc off when i'm finished buring this dvd

I just turned the lights off

Ponster · 29-03-2008 09:28PM

The guy wrote: »

I thought on LCDmonitors it required more energy to produce black.

From Google....

As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display.

Steve.Pseudonym · 29-03-2008 09:32PM

Google wrote:

To the contrary, on flat-panel monitors (already estimated to be 75% of the market), displaying black may actually increase energy usage. Detailed results from a new study confirm this.

Here

They don't say that on the earth hour page in order to avoid people thinking "huh? so wait, this is actually slightly counter productive? I'm enraged!"

Earth Hour: What will/did you do?

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