Posted on 09/22/2007 6:25:36 AM PDT by Excuse_My_Bellicosity
'Lights Out'' around Salt Lake City was a bust.
Rocky Mountain Power technicians were unable to measure any reduction in energy use on Wednesday night when Utah residents were urged to turn off their lights for an hour.
''I wouldn't call it a blowout, but it's indicative of the proportion of lighting to other electrical uses. It just wasn't visible on our load curves,'' said Rocky Mountain Power spokesman Dave Eskelsen.
Lighting accounts for just 14 percent of Utah's urban energy use - refrigerators and air conditioning make up 52 percent of the total, he said.
But from a commanding view at Huntsman Cancer Institute, Lights Out boosters were able to detect some random dimming around the city starting at 9 p.m.
And industry is the lion's share of the load on that 14%. It just goes to show what a load of crap Daylight Savings Time is.
“And industry is the lion’s share of the load on that 14%”
Yep, in a home, lighting generally only costs a couple dollars a month, or a few pennies for a few hours.
I had read in the past that the single largest home energy use is something that would be even harder to live without than refrigeration...
hot water.
May be true, maybe not.
Water heaters are the biggest draw on electric. Unless you have electric heating. To either turn on or off a light bulb is about 1% of your electric bill. Instant water heaters are very nice, but the price tag is still way too high right now.
Not only what a load of crap daylight savings time is, but also what a load of crap is the push to replace incandescent bulbs with the curly-cues as a cure for global warming.
I didn’t do it for any money saving reasons, my old water heater was about to explode, I had to get a new one.
I dont know how common these are in the States, but I have an electric hot water heater that is attached to the wall in the laundry room. When one turns on a hot water tap, water runs through some heating coils (or something). There is endless hot water throughout the house. There is no tank of water, which is heated and reheated 24 hours a day, and wasting ones money.
The only dimming I have been seeing is the nutjobs running our country at all levels. They just don’t understand that to have electricity, you must GENERATE it.
Thank you for the name of that heater ”demand heater.
I was sitting here thinking what the devil it was called in English. (Im not even sure what it is called in Spanish.)
In Panama, they also come in gas.
Must have seemed like magic at the time.
I know I can have all my lights on, computers, a tv and everything else going, and the meter is barely turning.
Wash my hands for thirty seconds, and the thing looks like it’s ready to spin into space or something!
But yet we are gonna save the planet by making everyone use these mercury filled bulbs that put out half the light.
All those nuts should go to Havana, Cuba. Yep, the city is in total darkness when the sun goes down (except for a light bulb here and a light bulb way the heck over there in the far, far away distance.)
That’s their cup of tea.
I've been thinking of doing that.
What is your experience? Time lag? savings?
BINGO...we have a winner!
The largest user of energy in this country is...you guessed it, your government. But we wouldn't dream of asking THEM to use less.
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