L.A. County calling for lights-out hour

L.A. Times ^ | September 29, 2007 | Susannah Rosenblatt, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer

[norton]

"A golden opportunity for the dregs of LA to catch up on their looting, vandalism and general mayhem?"

12 gage, tube mounted Pelican, coffee; keeps you on your toes.

[GOP Poet]

I’ll make a point to turn them all on!!! I usually turn off lights etc when I leave the room. However for this one night I will go against what my Mom has raised me to do and celebrate light!! :-)

[Global2010]

Hey let’s go for the tri city mode.

Richmond/Oakland/Pittsburg.

[norton]

"At the original event in Sydney, Australia, in March, 2.2 million people cut the lights, causing a 10% drop in electricity use. The so-called Earth Hour reduced 25 tons of carbon dioxide, equivalent to taking nearly 49,000 cars off the road for 60 minutes, organizers said...."

And what organizers did not say was that millions of BIC lighters being waved overhead for an hour while the populace sang folk songs and lapsed into zen-like feelings of well being blew off the savings ... and then some.

[Figment]

“At the original event in Sydney, Australia, in March, 2.2 million people cut the lights, causing a 10% drop in electricity use”

I wonder what happened when those 2.2 million turned their lights back on at roughly the same time? That had to cause some outages

[Nick Danger]

The so-called Earth Hour reduced 25 tons of carbon dioxide

Is there an electricity-generation maven in the house? My hunch is that this "25,000 tons" is a bunch of nonsense that comes from multiplying how much coal it takes to generate a kilowatt-hour, times the number of hippies, or something like that. Here's my question: is any less coal actually burned, or do the generators (and whatever drives them) keep hummin' along at a predetermined rate, regardless of any moment-to-moment fluctuations in demand?

[ElkGroveDan]

Thanks or the heads up. During that time I’m going to turn on all my lights, crank the AC down to 65 and take the Excursion out for a drive in first gear — towing the boat.

[HIDEK6]

What’s next? Grand Silence?

[jwparkerjr]

Fly over a major city at night and you get a feel for how much electricity is being used across the country for street lights alone. I know they serve a useful purpose, but surely there’s a better way. Maybe something as simple as letting street light turn themselves off for short periods of time on an irregular basis. Few criminals have the patience to sit around just waiting for the street light to cycle off. Even if one did shut off, the others would remain lighted and the overall effect, seems to me anyway, would be minimal.

There’s a baseball complex here in Tampa that is run by the city. I go by there at 3 AM and every light in the complex is on, every field lighted to the max. I’ve never figured that one out.

[mkjessup]

And for their NEXT act, the L.A. County Board of Supervisors will be seeking additional funds to box up the saved electricity from their ‘lights-out hour’ and ship it to Pyongyang North Korea, where the lights are perpetually out almost every night.

“Your tax dollars at work”

[Redcloak]

I guess that these two privileged dweebs have forgotten what it was like after Northridge when we involuntarily turned out all the lights around here.

[GOP Poet]

I'm with you. Who else is?

Absolutely I'm on. I posted #22 before I read this. Glad I am not alone in my response. lol.

[finch]

we are planning to move to Kentucky next year. Their web site brags that they have the lowest electric prices in the country. Sounds good to me!

[ukwildcats]

Thanks be to coal! Welcome (in advance) to the land of beautiful women, bourbon and ,,,,,,,,,Kentucky basketball. We also have a football team in the Top 10 (after today) in the country. Wow! is that exciting to type!

We also have some horses.

Go Big Blue!

[Leftism is Mentally Deranged]

A much better use of people’s time would be developing ways to capture and store energy from the sun for use at night.

[BobS]

Turn all the street lamps and stoplights off right where these idiots live.

[mathluv]

'10% decrease in electrical use, 100% increase in crime. Good thinking, libs!'

Some people have to learn the hard way!

But then again, some people never learn.

[xcamel]

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[sergeantdave]

Hmmm. Wonder what would happen if 2.2 million people in one geographical area flushed their toilets at the same time.