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'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « on: March 31, 2012, 03:52:39 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
So supposedly tonight (March 31) from 8:30pm to 9:30pm (local time in your timezone) is "earth hour" ... the idea is to turn off your lights for one hour. :roll:

LOL so what lights are you going to turn on tonight (and ofcourse outside, ideally facing upward LOL)
Maybe a good old MV floodlight or streetlight?
Maybe some nice VHO fluorescents?

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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #1 on: March 31, 2012, 06:49:28 PM » Author: paintballer22
I should put a 150w par-38 spot in the flag pole light (it faces up in the sky) instead of the 50w spot.The mercury vapor lamp post will stay on all night. At 8:30pm lights will be turned on as needed as usual I do not like being in my house in the dark, I like to see what I am doing.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #2 on: April 01, 2012, 04:33:41 AM » Author: dor123
The earth hour in Israel, will be noted in 22.apr.2012.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #3 on: April 01, 2012, 03:16:24 PM » Author: Ash
I really dont see the point in going bright lights against the earth hour itself

Being green and participating in this event (its not for the amount of energy saved in that hour which is tiny, but for the awareness and spreading the message) is not wrong in any way. Its being green and stupid in the same time which poses a problem

Now if you picked this hour to showcase wasted energy with incandescents in protest for the ban i can understand this, but think of it - What others see is that you are against _earth hour_, they won;t even link your protest to bulb bans or other _specific_ activities. For them, the message they see in your incandescents is the same as if you would go racing your SUV and honking around the block

Besides, i do like the dark sky so totally not doing anything that destroys it
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #4 on: April 01, 2012, 08:07:11 PM » Author: LowPressureSodiumSOX
I lit a 55w SOX, a 300w Halogen, a 15w Blacklight, 13w ***,175w clear MV and some more...
What is the point of earth hour???
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #5 on: April 01, 2012, 09:34:12 PM » Author: randacnam7321
'Earth hour' is some watermelon (derogatory term for ecocommie; meaning green outside and red to the core) thing where they sit in the dark, shun the things that make modern society possible and call for the destruction of same.  These same idiots would not last a day without any of the things they call for the elimination of.  Such lack of comprehension of reality is typical for them.
Being a guy who actually understands the realities of the world and who understands the limitations of the 'alternative technologies' that they are trying to replace real energy sources with, I have nothing but contempt for them.  At best, the are being willing dupes for one of the most evil ideologies in human history, namely socialism.  At worst, the are actively pushing same.
As such, I ran about 15kW of lights for human achievement hour.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #6 on: April 01, 2012, 10:11:01 PM » Author: xmaslightguy
I ended up running these 3:
* 175w MV floodlight
* 100w MH security light
* VHO fluorescent with 2x 110w 4' lamps
...all outside laying down, facing up! (coulda done many more normal fluorescents if i had so wished...)

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I ran about 15kW of lights for human achievement hour.
Wow!
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #7 on: April 01, 2012, 11:50:08 PM » Author: icefoglights
*shrugs* Was still daylight for me.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #8 on: April 02, 2012, 03:38:33 PM » Author: chapman84
I tatally agree with randacnam7321 that earth hour is a load of bull and it is, a form of communism. Why are you telling me not to use electricity?
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #9 on: April 02, 2012, 09:24:07 PM » Author: chapman84
I really didn't do anything special during earth hour, all my lights were on at night as usual. Earth hour is pointless.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #10 on: April 03, 2012, 12:13:41 PM » Author: Ash
I tatally agree with randacnam7321 that earth hour is a load of bull and it is, a form of communism. Why are you telling me not to use electricity?

There is difference between earth hour, or just cutting the power to your home

The 1st is voluntary. Its point is to promote responible use of electricity. This is the correct thing to do ALL OF THE TIME (ane not just 1 hour in a year), because most of the electricity comes from not renewable sources. This does not say "sit in the dark" or "use HF". it means "switch off lights that you dont need, when you dont need them"

The 2nd is what you can call communism as it is forced on you. But earth hour is NOT one of those things
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #11 on: April 04, 2012, 02:18:06 AM » Author: Medved
@Ash: Earth hour is a propaganda at the first place, so the compare with the communism...
Because every propaganda in the history always make way more bad than good, so I see as very highly unlikely for this to be any different.
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #12 on: April 04, 2012, 03:15:25 AM » Author: Ash
It is propaganda for who sees propaganda in it. All it is meant to say is to save electricity, its really that simple

There is so much other stuff to object to (both in greenies and in government activities), earth hour is by far not one of them
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #13 on: April 05, 2012, 12:21:26 PM » Author: Medved
As somebody alredy wrote before, if you want to save electricity, you have to do so 24 hours per day, 365 days in the year, that is something I fully agree with.
But otherwise it is only double facing: Doing something only one hour in a year does not save anything, so such "Earth hour" could not be anything else than a propaganda....
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Re: 'Earth Hour' .. what u gonna do « Reply #14 on: April 05, 2012, 03:34:38 PM » Author: LowPressureSodiumSOX
Earth Hour is from the hippies/greenies, and is for themself, not for everyone, because this is bull.
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