Following a little dip after supper hour, Ontario power demand rose from 7pm to 9 pm.
(h/t reader Stephen Jacks)
I’m not ashamed to admit it. I’m a little choked up.
(Yes, I noticed the “projection”. No dice, blackout boosters. The science is settled – any detected upward trend is a win in my column.)
Update – They love us in Singapore, too!
Well, those who count do, anyway.
More – Saskatoon Shines!
Plus – The numbers down under;
We watched at least 7 helicopters flying around the inner Brisbane skies. I sent a leftie friend of mine an sms at about 8:15pm asking her if she could hear them too – she was very perplexed as to why they were there until I explained it was the Earth Hour people filming the lights so that they could go home and watch their “success” on their plasma televisions.
I hate to point this out, Kate, but the actual usage on the chart is less than the projected during that period.
Not to worry, here in BC in 10 minutes we’ll turn on all the lights and crank up the stereo so the neighbors know which side we’re on.
Thanks for tracking electrical consumption – the magic hour hasn’t reached the Left Coast yet, but I just turned my outside light on anyway.
First post here and I apologize for the pseudonym, but I live in enemy territory and had my property vandalized after I wrote a letter to the local paper criticizing leftist tactics.
Just turned all outside lights on.
Glory to Blog in the highest.
Projections are for stock market analysts and global warming modellers.
Around here, “up is up”. I see results!
Actually…power use was less than projected. Woops! Posted that one a little too quick, eh?
I forgot to mention, I’m a stock market analyst.
Now, if we’d just turn off that pipeline out of Alberta, they’d see the usage in Ontario drop real fast. Let’s propose that for Earth Day next year.
8:02 on the Island;
old self cleaning oven on – check
flood lights in yard on – check
washer & dryer running – check
hockey game & cold beer – check and check
we’re good to go here in the land of fruits and nuts
I just spoke to a guy I converted today and he has done the following! He has four burners and the oven on full, his truck plugged in, a tub full of hot water, the microwave heating water, the heat turned up and the windows opened, a chicken brooder lamp on, all the lights on, the fridge door opened right beside the oven and so on. I have some lights on, the heat up, an electric fireplace going, a load in the dryer and a few other things going just for fun.
You want to know the heart of the matter…… in actual fact, I live an “Earth Year” and this is my “Typical enviroTool Hour”. I believe that I have just spent one hour living just an iota like suzuki/liberals live all year and they might have imitated my “normal” during this hour, if they did anything at all. That is what gets me so angry about this farce. I bet everyone who writes in and criticizes this event and other similar stories doesn’t waste anything during the course of their everyday lives. It is the phony bast#@ds that pipe up the loudest in favor of these bright ideas that waste energy, space and resources all year.
Do you realize that it takes 100,000 inklings to make a clue and most of the loudest voices preaching don’t even have an inkling about reality.
Like Kate said Steve…projections are for stock markets and leftards So where is that big DIP (no,not Taliban Jack) that we were supposed to see? Guess Nelly’s free concert blew that,eh. Heh
Jeepers! Didn’t know I had soooo many light switches. Some, probably on for the first time.
We have a very efficient stove so can’t get much smoke going.
What a way to find new friends!!
It really doesn’t matter how much electricity is saved or wasted this evening. You can bet the farm that there will soon be some fella with a beard(or woman with a small moustache)wearing glasses and birkenstocks proclaiming the hour was a success. They will spew some silly feel good tripe like’ we took the equivalent of 38,000 cars off the road tonight’. And life will go on.
I told my kids it was Earth Hour and time to turn off the XBox, computer, DVD, and sit around in the dark and tell ghost stories, they laughed. So, the lights, computers and heat stayed on.
What a juvenile, grade three, stunt this was, even my kids didn’t buy into it, and I have had many discussions with them about the environment.
There’s a reason why the ‘Dark Ages’ are considered a time when reason flew out of the window and ignorance ruled the land.
Posted by: PistonBroke at March 29, 2008 11:09 PM
Exactly right on.
We turned on all the lights in our 1000sq ft house, and it didn’t come close to a portion of one of Oprah’s houses, I’m sure.
My kids didn’t even realize Earth Day was an event.
“Earth what? You want us to sit around in the dark on a Saturday nite? I worked all day dad. Forget that!”
I done edified them good.
HEHEHEHEHE. Looks like I wasn’t the only one to turn on everything that had a switch, and I even did it about twenty minutes ahead of time.
Naturally, the Canadian (read COMMUNIST) Press declared success.
I confess…I had to break down – the Christmas lights got turned off early. My wife could no longer bear to distress our neighbours in their candle-lit house.
Dan in Real Life was more interesting….
Down here in Texas I thought I’d provide a little solidarity. All the lights were on anyway, so I went out to the barn and fired up the generator so I could use the 2KW halogens instead of the fluoros, which are powered by a solar panel and battery.
I suppose I should’ve fired up the ’74 Ford pickup with 390CID engine, but I have to use it tomorrow.
Regards,
Ric
The eco’s have their carbon offsets but two can
play that game. These sheep can turn off their
lights and I’ll be turning all mine on.
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WWF throws in with Iran… proposes return to “pre-industrial” society…
“Julie Langer, of World Wildlife Fund Canada — the group organizing
the event in Canada — said the goal of Earth Hour is to inspire action
and promote change.”
“Langer said most people realize that simply turning off the lights for
an hour won’t save the planet.”
“But the hope is that by doing so, people will become motivated to
‘make every hour Earth Hour.’“
tomorrow, i’m gonna skip dinner… in hope of ending world hunger.
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The most disturbing part of this lemming test is that too many of our politicians and civil servants subscribe to this garbage and are hell bent to shove it down our throats one way or another.
Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. To keep power, remove the peoples’ will to resist. Promise the Great Equaliser for those who feel they are owed just for existing. Use scare tactics such as pending disaster and threats to cut off the feeding trough to the rest. This tactic, with few exceptions, has worked in one form or another all through history.
Waiting to see some headlines:
Man marking earth hour walks by burning Candle, farts!
Head explodes and house blows up.
Dammit, I just found out I’ve got a burned out headlight in my car. And out of force of habit I turned out the lights before I stepped out. I feel so inadequate. How can I make it up? Does Crown Surplus sell searchlights or air raid sirens?
God Lord, is there no end to this childish idiocy? Have the fart’n, stinky, oozing adults in our culture become so emasculated by their sexy, impulsive, indigo children that they are now following their lead? Pitiful. Discouraging and pitiful.
I’m now trusting that since projections are purportedly a leftist creation, Kate will refrain from citing them to bolster her case in future postings. I guess we can discount all those projections she has cited refuting climate change. Good to know!
This whole earth hour awareness effort was organized by the ‘World wildlife fund’. Isn’t it ironic that while they are concentrating on saving the planet(and raising funds),poor Chester,an actual wildlife critter goes belly-up.Shame on them.
Tomorrow is Don’t Jump in Front of a Train Day, sponsored by Progressives for a Healthy Planet.
Don’t let them push you around.
And in case anyone isn’t really clear on how to interpret the graph that Kate posted here, it shows that the level by which actual demand was shy of projected was greatest between 6 and 10pm. Apparently most people switched off for a good bit longer than the one hour that was suggested.
And for a price, I can help with other mathematical difficulties you may be having.
Looks like I wasn’t the only one to turn on everything that had a switch, and I even did it about twenty minutes ahead of time.
(Hey, ya want I should dig up some bones for ya? Anything you say, Kate. Cuz you and me is pals, that’s right, ain’t it, Kate?…..)
Nope, nobody living on programmed-control thought timers around here.
At 4.4c/kWh, and an estimated decrease of 250MW for 2h, that’s approximately 22,000 dollars saved.
I guess that is just peanuts, but at the very least, why do you feel proud about wasting money? Some conservatives you jackasses are; I daresay you let your blind hatred override your principles.
It’s important to some people…so why shit all over that? Who cares if you don’t agree with them – is it necessary to ruin the efforts of others? Seriously, what kind of low-grade vindictive idiocy is that? Did someone take a dump all over someone’s Christian Easter holiday or something? Where does this come from?
I submit comments from Singapore and other countries occasionally SDA says to drop dead. Something about Spam or hostile location or similar such remark. I just don’t bother until in Canada.
As I said in another thread, your wanton disregard and active contempt for things that are important to others has given me a veritable license to sh*t all over the Christmas season for about a dozen diehard Jesus freaks. I look forward to making the birth of the baby Jesus miserable. Thanks SDA! — you contemptuous asswipes!
And thank you anon.
Checked my power meter before/after turning on all the house lights for 1.5 hours and disappointed that I used only 7.9 Kwh. At $0.07/Kwh this exercise cost me $0.55. The low power consumption is because I’ve probably got too many fluorescent bulbs (the real kind, not CFL’s). This experiment shows that a 10 KW backup generator should be more than adequate to supply my house with power. By next year I should have an electric kiln installed and can do a firing to commemorate the next earth hour if this stupid exercise will be continued.
A quote from an Ottawa Sun article sums up nicely what an empty gesture this thing is.
“When (pub) manager Remy Urquhart notified his patrons what they were doing, one of his regular customers ran home, after realizing he forgot to turn off the lights, he said.
From Andrew Bolt down under in Oz
“The organisers will say never mind, this was about raising awareness (although not of raising awareness of the facts). But here’s the awareness it should raise: how difficult it is to get even a tiny cut in just electricity use for one lousy hour, in a country responsible for just 1.5 per cent of the world’s emissions.
And then think what the Rudd Government is promising: a 60 per cent cut in all emissions, all year. And it’s to be matched by every country around the world.”
Does this last bit mean that Harper has bought into this stupidity. If so that is worse than Dion who only talked about and did nothing. Harper is already throwing thousands of dollars at it and has bought the Oz line of banning incandescent light bulbs, although after McGuinty bought into it.
I was on my way home from work at about 8:30 pm and I was surprised at how many people did have their lights off. Of course it wasn’t really dark because the street lights were many and bright, but I would guess that about 80% of houses were completely blacked out. Of course when I got home I turned on all my outside lights just so people would see. And since I work for the local electricity producer,with almost 3000 Mw on line last night (usually its about 4000 but we have a unit down for its 24 month maintenance) I have to do something to make sure that the product of my labour is needed.
From the whine and wail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080329.wcanadaearthhour0329/BNStory/National
“What’s amazing is that it’s transcending political boundaries and happening in places like China, Vietnam, Papua New Guinea,” said Andy Ridley, executive director of Earth Hour.
I have news for this idiot, my wife and I live and work in China, we heard nothing about it and saw no lights or anything else go out. These lefty idiots think they can get away with these type of lies and wonder why it makes their case worse.
Yo, anon. You wonder why we are making fun of this exercise in idiocy?
1. the same crew were wrong about DDT, and how may millions have died?
2. the same bunch of morons were wrong about nuclear power, and how much particulate matter has been dumped in the atmosphere?
3. the same group of idiots were wrong about incineration, and how much methane has been produced form our landfills?
So, please spare us your moonbat outrage, dipshit!
Always amusing how lefties like anon don’t get that we are Joking. Such literalist, small-minded Twits they are.
“As I said in another thread, your wanton disregard and active contempt for things that are important to others”
And that…anony….is the pot calling the kettle black.
Me – I did my part, just for anony and other followers of the GREAT Suzuki/Gore religion. I made sure that the only lights that were on were in the two rooms we were watching TV, oh – and the computer room. But I did switch that off when I left the room (isn’t there something that says that you actually use MORE energy switching on and off lights – or is that and old wives tale (or for you city folk – which I assume anony is – an URBAN myth)
It’s so easy to turn off your power for an hour to feed your sense of self righteousness. Now try living that way, day after day, year after year. No refrigeration, no stereo, no Ipod, no computer for your internet, no electrical heat, no lights, no power to run medical equipment, and that’s all I can think of in the moment. I remember the 03 blackout, and while we had a great lying out on the front lawn looking up at the stars, I also remember it was for only 24 hours.
Don Cherry and David Suzuki agree:
Suzuki is a left-wing kook
On Hockey Night in Canada no less.
“Harper” = Prime Minister Harper.
Good man; a Daniel.
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“Harper snubs Earth Hour
Thanks to its place of prominence in the capital, 24 Sussex Dr., the Prime Minister’s residence, is always easy to spot. As Ottawa went dark last night for Earth Hour, it was even easier.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s lights stayed on.”(TO Star)
Man, I wish we were getting some of that “AGW” that the leftards have been shrieking about.
According to the weather network, it is -10C in Kingston at this moment. Forget about earth hour, I am just thankful that I swapped out the old furnaces for high efficiency ones. Stick the recycling, I am now saving money due to replacing 40 odd windows.
It is a good thing that I did not listen to fruit fly and his merry band of leftards when I was planning my renovation schedule.
IDIOT MOONBATS!
Unintelligible wrote:
“And in case anyone isn’t really clear on how to interpret the graph that Kate posted here, it shows that the level by which actual demand was shy of projected was greatest between 6 and 10pm. Apparently most people switched off for a good bit longer than the one hour that was suggested.
And for a price, I can help with other mathematical difficulties you may be having.”
Hey spud, you must be a product of the New Math. There is no such conclusion in that graph. The stepped projection can’t be resolved that finely. The graph shows that there is no attributable statistical difference in usage, whatsoever. Doesn’t appear your analyses are worth listening to, let alone paying for.
Obviously, people here don’t watch CTV Pravda because according to the “news” report this morning, earth day was a roaring success. That seque’d into a story of Halifax trying to break the record for pub crawling (London and St John’s too). I guess that booze induced “blackouts” count too.
The really sad thing is that there are still a lot of people out there that believe the MSM’s version without question. Pity, eh.
Well I hope those susukites and gorites fell they got their absolution last evening. You know it’s tough feeling so righteous living in their monster homes with their deep jucuzzi tubs running and their children playing video games night after night.
One has to wonder if new environmental religion (susukite/gorite) has now replaced the old religions (thou shalt not…). So instead of going to hell, they will burn here on earth :-).