Earth Hour 2008

[soulslicer]

Turn off your lights and see the difference!

http://www.earthhour.org/
http://www.inhabitat.com/2008/01/31/everyone-turn-off-your-lights/

This simple act has captured the hearts and minds of people all over the world. As a result, at 8pm March 29, 2008 millions of people in some of the world?s major capital cities, including Copenhagen, Toronto, Chicago, Melbourne, Brisbane and Tel Aviv will unite and switch off for Earth Hour.

Spread the good will

 

[Dynasty]

We need more than an hour really, Earth Week or Earth Month is more like it.

If i had my way, it'd be Earth Year but anyway...

 

[Dekstar]

Screw electricity. Power stations will be generating electricity whether or not we use it. What we really need to worry about is overpopulation. We should have a "you are free to kill all chavs" hour to solve this problem.

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

Wow, the last picture I saw like that was one from about ten years ago, and the lights were heavily centralised on Europe, India, Japan and western north america, but that was about it. Everything else was sparse. Looking at that now shows how far we have come.

EDIT: ah yes, here is the one from 2000: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Earthlights_dmsp.jpg

What astonishing improvement over but 8 years. It also extremely beautiful imo, shows that, despite humanities shortcomings, we do kick ass in many ways.

 

[Tyguy]

im in the brightest part

 

[xcellerate]

this is the same crap as that "don't buy gasoline for one day! we'll teach those major corporations a lesson!"

...yea right...

 

[kupocake]

Doesn't this make zero actual benefit and potentially cause higher power demands when everyone powers up their appliances after the jump? (like how turning lights off and on multiple times in a short period uses as much energy as keeping them on for the duration)... Also

world's major capital cities

Copenhagen

lol? I don't have anything against the Danish, but... Major capital city? Que?

 

[Escaep]

I wonder what that one dot in the upper right corner is doing.

 

[Pesmerga]

Masturbating.

 

[Raziaar]

(like how turning lights off and on multiple times in a short period uses as much energy as keeping them on for the duration)

That's false. It doesn't work that way.








One day I would love to see a lit up antarctica! Even a couple pixels of light!

 

[Atomic_Piggy]

One day I would love to see a lit up antarctica! Even a couple pixels of light!

One day we might. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arcology

 

[xcellerate]

That's false. It doesn't work that way.

ya it does, turning on a light requires more energy than keeping it at a steady state.

And if you don't want to believe me, mythbuster's tested it! (that's like the new closer to any argument)

To turn an incandescent light on, it requires as much energy as if the light was running for 0.36 seconds. For a CFL light it was 0.015 seconds, for a halogen light it was 0.51 seconds, for an LED light it's 1.28 seconds, and for a fluorescent light it's 23.3 seconds.

 

[theotherguy]

ya it does, turning on a light requires more energy than keeping it at a steady state.

And if you don't want to believe me, mythbuster's tested it! (that's like the new closer to any argument)

To turn an incandescent light on, it requires as much energy as if the light was running for 0.36 seconds. For a CFL light it was 0.015 seconds, for a halogen light it was 0.51 seconds, for an LED light it's 1.28 seconds, and for a fluorescent light it's 23.3 seconds.

You just contradicted yourself. It would ONLY be more efficient to leave them on if you were out of the room for 0.36 seconds. turning them off for an hour would save MASSIVE amounts of energy (divide an hour by .36 seconds to find the level of energy saved by turning them off).

 

[Vegeta897]

The lights on that map have nothing to do with every day people's house lights. They are like airplane beacons and shit. And important lights. Lights that we have to ensure safety.

Sure let's turn 'em off.

Enjoy your plane crashes and ship beaching.

 

[xcellerate]

You just contradicted yourself. It would ONLY be more efficient to leave them on if you were out of the room for 0.36 seconds. turning them off for an hour would save MASSIVE amounts of energy (divide an hour by .36 seconds to find the level of energy saved by turning them off).

why don't you try that equation with the 23.3 second light or the 1.28 second light?

I could turn a florescent light on and off 5 times in < 10 seconds, so that means it just used enough power to run for 116.5 seconds, however it was only on for part of 10 seconds.

 

[Sneaki]

Japan would have to be the brightest small patch. New Zealand's the same size but I guess we only have 4 million so that explains the darkness..

 

[French Ninja]

lol @ North Korea and most of Canada.

 

[delusional]

lol @ North Korea

You'd think South Korea is an island.

 

[highlander]

Yay..Australia is...kinda dark.