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Earth hour almost seems to be a total waste of time; it should be earth night and go from sunset to sunrise. The power stations take a long time to power up a generator, and to shut one down, and I can tell you that the 1hour with the lights off will not stop the power being generated; it’s not worth their time, but for all night they might keep a turbine offline during the peak load time?? All councils should have the street lights turned off as well, but that won’t happen unless there is a natural disaster!! While in principle I agree with the objective of the night, the practicalities have been underestimated, or in the case of savings severely overrated!!!!
They will burn the same amount of coal, or fuel oil to keep the turbines going – waiting for that token surge to come back when we turn everything back on.
SO yes I will token gesture and switch the light off, but behind the scenes the turbines keep working......
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