Monday, April 2, 2012

Sitting in the dark for what?

Seemingly millions of sheeple sat in the dark on Saturday night for no apparent reason. Sydney radio reported that this gesture resulted in 10% less electricity consumption during the one hour of Earth Hour. Note they did not say that it resulted in a 10% reduction of electricity generation. With most of Australia's base load power coming from coal fired power stations the gesture meant that the 10% power not used was still generated as coal fired power stations do not have a instant on/off switch. Looking at the video below I had to laugh at the scenes in Paris, as 90% of France's electricty is generated from nuclear and renewables, which produce no CO2, switching off the lights did not stop the nuclear fuel rods from decaying or the wind turbines from spinning.

RussiaToday on Mar 31, 2012  more photos at:  http://on.rt.com/3svkx8


oh by the way India is planning to build another 175 coal fired power stations....



Update: Alex Jones's take on Earth Hour

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