The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: doganjo on March 27, 2010, 08:20:42 pm
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Getting ready - all lights off except one, that and the TV will go off from 8.30 until 9.30. Laptop will stay on as it is on battery power now, but I feel I'll have done my bit.
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Chelsea game's on at 8.30. Will turn the lights off though.
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Lights off and sat by candle light!
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What the L are you on about? ??? :farmer:
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Yeh i didnt know either George. Too late now though.
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Happens every year so you can do it next year - Or do it tonight instead. It is to try to save an hour's electricity in every home in the world, and make people aware of the energy they are using. Just think about it.
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I dont need to think about it Annie When the public authorities start to save electricity I will be more interested :farmer:
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we had an "earth hour" at school on Friday, all the lights, TV's and 90% of the computers were turned off, done my bit ;D
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I dont need to think about it Annie When the public authorities start to save electricity I will be more interested :farmer:
That is a typical answer - no offence intended, George. "If they do it I'll do it." But if we do it first then they might sit up and take notice.
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To be fair most of the big cities do switch off a lot of lights for earth hour, including a lot of big landmarks that are usually all lit up.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8590756.stm (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/8590756.stm)
We switched off everything last night, played a board game by candlelight and had a wee drink!
Beth
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Never heard of it :-\
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We have an earth hour every night.. from about 11.oo to 6.oo ;)
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We have an earth hour every night.. from about 11.oo to 6.oo ;)
OK be facetious if you like, but some people think it's worth doing. Including me.
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If you only knew how green I am
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We did know Kermit
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I am too, but I still switched off my lights.
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Hey up Karen Talk about Bluddi Kidology.Statement of fact.If we are not in a room we turn off the light ALL THE BULBS IN OUR HOUSE are Low Energy saver bulbs.We only boil enough water to make the amount of cups of drink we need.I always turn the gas off when the food is nearly done so it is not over cooked potatoes still continue to cook in their ex-boiling water.We never use the washing machine partially loaded .Why do we mess about like this.EASY ITS WHY MY GAS AND ELECTRICITY BILLS ARE £100 A QUARTER! So we have 1000000 people all using low energy bulbs and they turn them off for 1 hour wow thats 7 million watts saved Thinks 7M = 7000kw Oh heck thats 1 electric cooker not being used for an hour What a saving.You can kid some of the people.Fortunately some can think for them selves :o :farmer:
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You can kid some of the people.Fortunately some can think for them selves :o :farmer:
Sadly an ironic statement given that your maths are wrong by a factor of 1000!
at 7000Kw for 1 hour that is 7000KwH or 7000units!! That is one hell of an oven using more electricity in one hour than my household uses in 2 years!!
ED
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I think what Wizard was saying is that, it is common sense to switch off something you are not using as you can see the results through the electricity bill. It is another case of preaching to the preached and a show of arent "I a good government" and "Look at me". I dont need to prove anything as my concience is clear and anyway I dont like being told what to do by organisations that probably used up more resources advertising the fact than it saved!Obviously not very well ::) :D It is now a beautiful day here so I am going to destroy a patch of peat moor for my cooking heating and water.Well, power has to come from somewhere! But saying that I have planted a lot of trees to compensate and had a quote for a wind turbine.Which is definately in the pipeline for the near future, so I can leave all my lights on then.
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It is another case of preaching to the preached and a show of arent "I a good government"
But it wasn't anything to do with teh Government. It was initiated by teh World Wildlife Fund http://earthhour.wwf.org.uk/
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Now that sez it all don't it ;D ;D
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Made you bluddi think though didn't it eagle and its still a infinitesimal amount in the grand scheme of things My oven uses about 1 watt for its timer.
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Simon O , sorry just got the joke :D :pig:(no frog so put miss piggy there)
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Wizard, just shows, does it not, how much telly I watch! :wave:
Knew I should have coughed up more monthly cash after the WWF kept pestering me to up my monthly payments instead of cancelling.I would be in the know then. ::)
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To me, earth hour isn't just about switching off for an hour. It's a reminder of previous time, when we didn't have all the comforts we have now, and when we didn't have electricity. I think most people on here do all the things mentioned above, of course we switch stuff off when it's not being used, and fill the washing machine full. Personally, I used the earth hour to remind us of what comforts we have and that we shouldn't abuse it them/our environment too much.
Beth
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Well said, Beth, exactly what I felt too but didn't express it so well.
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Well I don't know Beth or Annie as I ride about the country side and visit friends and relatives most of their houses are lit up like Christmas Trees I called on Brian last week and he was bawling the OH and 18 and 22 year old kids out because every light was switched on in the house and they were in the lounge watching Eastenders.Thats what maybe upset him the program they were watching!I feel I would have little bother in returning to the life style of the 1940's but where are the fire places what about smokeless zones and I see paraffin is £3.50p a litre in some garden centers Perhaps we could use candles?Think of all the coal we haven't access to nowadays.I am sorry I feel there is no going back.
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I don't think there's a going back either. For which I am sorry for too. But, we need to look at different things, how can we stop using as much, or what alternatives can we come up with.
I knew exactly what you meant Annie, and it felt to me like people couldn't see that :)
Beth
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Thanks, Beth. I do all I can to recycle - and not just in the recycle bins. My dogs get old clothes and bedding to sleep on for instance. And I turn off lights that aren't necessary, but I still felt the need to make a stance for Earth Hour.