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Off-topic / Earth hour!
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Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 20:27:17
Okay in 5 minutes the whole world is encouraged to switch off all electricity for one hour!
http://www.earthhour.org/
join me! o:
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Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 21:11:09
No one will do this.
Seriously. -
Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 21:44:21QUOTE (neXus @ Mar 27 2010, 02:11 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>No one will do this.
Seriously.
http://green.yahoo.com/blog/greenpicks/274...earth-hour.html -
Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 21:53:52QUOTEThe goal of the World Wildlife Fund-sponsored event isn't to save energy on this one day -- it's to raise awareness of climate change and energy conservation all year round.
So how does that work. How does a bunch of people turning their lights off for 1 tiny hour raise my awareness for climate change and energy conservation. It has literally no effect on me and very very little effect on anything.
The list of things I could do to "improve this planet" is just hilarious. Like laugh out loud hilarious. -
Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 22:51:34
Two things:
It will only make a difference if people do this consistantly, or at least, conserve power consistantly.
Secondly, it would seem the logical step (from a man who has studied quite far into physics) would be to use nuclear fission power for the next generation of mankind (bearing in mind that the 3 mile island/Chernobyl plants were old designs). Using the new design of nuclear reacter which has never failed. Switching to fusion (which will have it's energy source as lithuim producing water as a bi-product) in the generation following (assuming enough funding goes into this). As far as I know, only the UK, US and France are really funding fusion. It's the best option. Wind/Solar/Wave etc are useless as fuck (bear in mind I have quite a bit of idea of what I'm talking about here). Most projections on so called 'renewables' are really exageratted and best case scenarios. Fission you are getting a few percent of mass to energy and fission you get about 10% mass to energy converversion (very useful). Renewables is like 1% or less so you need at least 10x more renewable source plants to one of fusion... -
Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 23:05:34
I sat there drawinmng for the whole thing (: and i was having so much fun i didnt notice the time untill like 10:15 (approx 45 mins extra o: )
If you did it too then im glad to hear, it was actually pretty fun for me -
Date: Sat, Mar 27 2010 23:26:16QUOTE (neXus @ Mar 27 2010, 02:53 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>So how does that work. How does a bunch of people turning their lights off for 1 tiny hour raise my awareness for climate change and energy conservation. It has literally no effect on me and very very little effect on anything.
The list of things I could do to "improve this planet" is just hilarious. Like laugh out loud hilarious.QUOTE (Mats @ Mar 27 2010, 03:51 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>Two things:
It will only make a difference if people do this consistantly, or at least, conserve power consistantly.
Secondly, it would seem the logical step (from a man who has studied quite far into physics) would be to use nuclear fission power for the next generation of mankind (bearing in mind that the 3 mile island/Chernobyl plants were old designs). Using the new design of nuclear reacter which has never failed. Switching to fusion (which will have it's energy source as lithuim producing water as a bi-product) in the generation following (assuming enough funding goes into this). As far as I know, only the UK, US and France are really funding fusion. It's the best option. Wind/Solar/Wave etc are useless as fuck (bear in mind I have quite a bit of idea of what I'm talking about here). Most projections on so called 'renewables' are really exageratted and best case scenarios. Fission you are getting a few percent of mass to energy and fission you get about 10% mass to energy converversion (very useful). Renewables is like 1% or less so you need at least 10x more renewable source plants to one of fusion...
lol wow people
chill out
just take a moment and observe the nature
dont over analyze everything
just turn the lights off for an hour
that will make some difference
its gotta start somewhere right? -
Date: Sun, Mar 28 2010 00:22:33
you cant do something like this globally, it has to be dependent to timezone
nobody is gnna do this in the middle in the night for instance