Earth Hour-March 27th
posted by jim | March 26, 2010
Earth Hour; photo by jimcoli
Earth Hour is March 27th, 8:30 to 9:30 pm. Power down, turn off the lights, save some fuel. I think it’s useful and fun to practice carbon sequestration. For all our schemes at sequestering carbon, nature does it better. Coal, oil, and tar sands are all examples of the way carbon has naturally been sequestered and energy efficiency and alternative energy is the best way to go in my humble opinion. So instead of coming up with elaborate schemes to sequester carbon let’s just not burn them. Let’s just keep the oil in the soil, the coal in the hole, and the tar sands in the land (I didn’t make that up, by the way). Tree Hugger suggests that it makes a difference:
“One of the big myths about Earth Hour is that it doesn’t actually make any difference, that the generators are running anyways. But the generators run on schedules and the operators now take Earth Hour into account. In Ontario, Canada, they dialed back the generators and reduced power generation by more than 6%…
In the City of Toronto, power consumption dipped 15.1% (a lot of people were into it here). In the Philippines, power saved was equivalent of shutting down six coal fired plants for an hour. Even Dubai cut back by 200,000 kWh.”
Over at Crunchy Chicken, Deanna Duke suggests you have some Earth Hour hanky panky. We plan to have an Earth Happy Hour block party amongst the neighbors in our 50 townhouse neighborhood. I don’t what percentage of our neighbors we’ll get to turn off the lights, but I’ll let you know.