Earth Hour crashes to Earth | Herald Sun Andrew Bolt Blog “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.”
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it should be pointed out that these events can NEVER work anywhere in the world. electricity generators cannot simply stop producing electricity for an hour. I can take a coal fired power station up to 36 hours to cool down once fired (which is what Melbourne uses). It takes 12 hours or so to get it up and running again, so if people want street lights for their way home, after earth hour, the power station MUST keep running. all the electricity ’saved’ during that hour is just lost, that’s why those graphs look as they do.