"Earth Hour" Will the national grid cope??

[frotter]

Hehe - if we turn the Nat. Grim off here all it means is that no one can have a hot shower. Ergo - no change at all as we are all dirty b*stards! (present Mrs Frotter excluded - she only likes to bathe in deep Lard heated suds... )

Great idea though. Perhaps i could find some army surplus arc lamps up the tip to lance great Lard powered fingers of light into the dark night sky. 'Put that light out!  Dont you know theres a war on terror on!?'

 

[Antman]

For those of us wot have converted as many lights as practical to low energy lamps, doesn't it kind of defeat the object that they now expect us to turn those off as well?   

It is not so much those of us who are already aware of the issues as taking part would make far less difference than those who steadfastly refuse to see the need to save energy in the first place. It is those who have as yet done nothing that need to be targetted and they will surely remain far more difficult to persuade - assuming there is an interest in the first place...

Ant

[marktime]

Lets face it Ant after the success  of Energy saving Day http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7270218.stm last month what good is one hour going to be. Granted those of us who have seen the light will not make as much difference as those on the dark side. The real challenge would be to get everone to turn off the idiots lantern for 1 hour on a Saturday night, after all there's nothing on!!


MarkTime

[Ivan]

and Gordon Brown and Alastair Darling can cuddle up together and watch the event on their 10 Downing Street 52" plasma TV

[Woodenstop]

Just noticed Google have latched on to Earth Hour, should prove inteesting later.
Has Ken returned from China, he wanted reminding so he could log the National Grid.

Andy

[northern installer]

well,I turned my dining room lights off,(2x3 watt candle lamps),it didnt seem much differant!

[Ivan]

We did it, and watched the grid frequency on a power meter. I didn't manage to get a reading beforehand, but at 9pm, the frequency was 50.0Hz. Around 2/3 way through, I checked and it was 50.1Hz, and at the end it was 49.9Hz. Now it is 49.9Hz

[northern installer]

I didnt feel the earth shudder on its axis,were only the people using this thread taking any notice?