Earth Hour starts at 8.30PM tonight, asks for sixty minutes of natural living
By Vlad Savov 
posted March 27th 2010 2:28PM
posted March 27th 2010 2:28PM
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I will!
@masochist
No wai this is bullcrep!
Am sikkeh these people from teh future cummin here and tekkin er jerbs!
THEY TOOK ER JERBS!
@tobsmonster2
DEY too err JerrbbbSS!!!
Sorry, but my lights are staying on.
I've been living in a freezing house all winter in an effort to combat recent price gouging by the local electric company. They used the word "carbon emissions" somewhere in their excuse for the elevated rates. I wasn't amused.
Now Engadget wants me to turn off my lights? Get bent.
The "green" movement has degraded into a power grab and worship of the planet.
@masochist
I'll be turning every thing on in my house that I possibly can. Then I'll piss on a tree.
@Mentat
DUTTTUKKEDURRRR
@Mentat
DUTTTUKKEDURRRR
@dickweed
The tree will be fine with that, your neighbors might not be....
@New Reformation
They will get over it. If they don't maybe I'll piss on their tree too.
@Joseph Mama
Exactly
@masochist
I will gladly join in by turning on all the lights in my house for an hour. For one hour a year, the Earth looks just a little bit brighter :)
@masochist
For sure! Least that we can do. Right?
Too true - whyh is Engadget posting this!
@masochist I'm gonna go out of my way to try to consume more power than usual. You are not the boss of me!
@masochist
60 mins; enough for the world to come to an irrecoverable halt if everyone everywhere took on the challenge.
@masochist And...lights out!!!
@cwalters74
If they really cared they would turn off all but 1 server displaying as little text as possible (text in white with a black background) explaining the event.
I already save tons on energy compared to the average in my area. I think I'm going to go watch a movie instead of making sure my desk lamp is off...
@dickweed
Agreed.. BUT.. since it's saturday night, I'll be leaving the house way before "Earth hour" so I'll turn on every light at 6pm, crank down my AC (even though I don't really need it yet), leave my tv running, my xbox on, and my computers (3 of them) computing pi until I get home around 2 or so in the morning... at which time I'll need to take a piss so it will be on a tree also. ;) Since I'll be buzzed.. I'll leave all that shit running until the hangover is gone Sunday afternoon sometime.
@cwalters74
but thay took mah jerb...
Seriously though, something about reading this just makes me want to waste more energy...i have authority issues :d
@dsaum
maybe you should run your microwave for that entire time too...just saying.
@masochist
Only if Engadget promises not to post during that hour [=
@masochist Just take a nap for an hour lol.
@masochist
Maybe you will, but if this trend continues, I'm willing to bet that at least 50 corporations are already bidding on which building or advertisement will be the first and brightest one during this "off-hour" to exploit the opportunity to advertise. This is counterproductivity at its best..
@dickweed appropriate name. Hope you've strung your tree up with lights as well. Then after pissing, you can change your name to dicklessweed. It'll match the brainless part ...
@masochist I'm always au naturel by 8:30.
@cwalters74
This is really gay...EVERYONE BACK TO THE PILE!
Honestly it's only an hour. You could have sex, take a nap or both.
@dickweed
During my 4 visits to New York, I realized that every shop leaves its lights on (all the lights) all night long. I was surprised. But probably they do so because energy may be cheap in America. I have heard that 75% of your energy comes from the Nuclear thing. I may be wrong. But, I don't blame you for doing what you do. It's not as if other countries, if they had similar access to energy, would have done things differently. Probably it happens in America because they can afford too. So, if you guys turned lights at 8, it would be really funny, lol.
@Joseph Mama
I'm at the theater now. My movie is about to start. Take that, earth.
@krishansy
No, most of Americas electricity comes from the dirtiest source: coal. France is the country you're talking about. 80% of their power comes from nuclear. It would be nice if we in the US could do that, but dirty hippies here don't want nuclear power.
If you want a sobering view of how bad global warming is watch this:
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/heat/view/?utm_campaign=viewpage&utm_medium=grid&utm_source=grid
@masochist
I'll save Earth by downloading a truckload of BDRIPs, thus reducing the manufacturing of plastic DVD cases.
I might do it... if I wasn't getting a really good speed on my torrent and didn't want to jinx it.
Sad, I know.
I dunno, I suppose I could light some candles and turn off my halogens lol, maybe use some headphones instead of my monitors, use my laptop screen instead of my 24"er.... Of course, I don't know how much more energy efficient light bulbs are compared to candles when manufacturing costs and all are factored in.
@masochist Manbearpig says to turn everything off. Do it, or he will kill you.
OK, I try not to be judgmental, but seriously, all you teeny-boppers (and "adults" of a similar maturity level) in here who talk about turning on all their lights to somehow counteract the message that's being promoted here need to grow up, open their eyes, and actually think for themselves for once.
Global climate change is not a joke (or a lib'rul conspiracy), no matter what your favorite talk radio host says. It may not be fully understood, but that doesn't mean that it should be ignored. The energy crisis is not a joke, and the price of the fossil fuels that power your cars and the coal-powered plants that supply your computers with electricity is only going to go one way... up! Sticking your head in the ground and pretending that there's nothing wrong isn't going to change reality.
Of course, I'm not under any misconception that this post will change reality significantly, either. You'll keep on believing what you want to believe, and reality will keep on not giving a flying rat's rear end whether you stand up and face the future or get steamrollered by it.
@masochist
I too hope the plane becomes unlivable for the rest of you because I'm sick and tired of the self serving self aggrandizing SOB's that many of you have become. Sorry to inconvenience you, but the planet doesn't give a shit if you kill a tree, but your sorry ass will.
Anyway, what's the point, clearly you want a smaller government, no taxation, and drilling up your ass in ANWAR. I really do hope humanity perishes in the next century, so that intelligent species get a do over.
@Please forgive me
* plane
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@Old fogie late bloomer If I can borrow that soapbox for a moment, I see this as a ploy to convince Joe blow domino to take on extra responsabilty for an issue that was created and advanced by capitalism and "big businesses" moraly devoid practices. While you and I shut our lights off and linger in the dark, how many companies will do nothing. The waste they create alone in a day is enough to make angy at the expectation to "do my part", while the factory down the road continues to pump out hello kitty lunch boxes by the thousands. I see the mesage is bigger than "turn ur lights off", but many don't. Maybe with our hour, we should take a walk through an industrial area, take note of how concerned the wost of us are.
@Joseph Mama Not likely. They're probably gouging you as a threat to lawmakers. The insurance industry has used this tactic.
@Old fogie late bloomer
Please be more careful in your posts regarding age discrimination. I am 27 yo, and have rallied many people under 30 around this. I am sickened to read all these comments. If you choose not to participate, please do so quietly. I cant imagine what kinds of people these guys are. This is a win- win situation for the earth, no matter how small the effort. And I dont care if youre too ignorant to believe in global warming(really?), you should be able to see how this can positively impact the planet we rely on for life!! I am a sad man tonight, hoping this doesnt represent any majority of people alive today. Or there is a bleak future ahead.
@Evileclipse This is a statment, not a solution. It does next to zero good for "global warming". Like brushing your teeth once a year, it's not enough to stop this. Keep in mind the planet has heated up and cooled down thousands of times before. 500 years ago leonardo davinchi(what ever) was inspired by devistating floods and storms, it's gonna thaw out and freeze over. End of story. I'm not saying we should not try to take care of our planet, or be comcerned about polution, but that these bandaid solutions are just not productive in the face of global exploitation. Just a couple days ago they opened new speices of sharks to the pacific orient, anyone else see the writing on the wall, it's awfuly bleak.....
count me in.
@jtothea
Why?
why even do this? the power plants aren't shutting down for an hour, they are going to work just as hard as if you did have your lights on. If you really want to save the planet cut all of the electrical lines leaving the power plants. Just don't cut off power in my neighborhood because I cannot promise you will sleep soundly if that happens
@Mentat
wow.
Have you ever heard of the law of the conservation of energy?
Do you have an elementary understanding of how the power grid works?
Youe reply leads me to believe that you honestly think that even when your lights are off, energy is still being thrown away.
It makes a huge difference if one person helps out…think of it like democratic voting, of course one vote isn't going to make a difference, its the large number of people that take part in a seemingly basic action that makes the difference.
@jtothea Ok...let me get this straight
'NATURAL LIVING' = roaming around naked, no house, no car, no cellphone (really), no 'food' except live animals and plants and fuck anybody you like, just like chimps?
I am missing something????
Dude this is gonna be an ORGY FEST. ;D
@sparky25890
Unfortunately, Mentat's correct in this case. Because it takes so much energy to get power stations up and running, they're usually kept at full steam to meet the possible need. The true purpose of this event is to hopefully convince people that they can in fact live without consumption 24/7. Therefore, we'd consume less, and power plants over time could produce less/switch to more efficient energy sources due to a reduced load. As for me, I took a hike during the day to reduce my power consumption (going out on unlit trails at night is usually not the best idea).
@sparky25890 actually, since the president is voted in by the electoral college, none of OUR votes actually count for anything on that... other than a nice little statistic for the news to throw around...
started in Estonia, now
@sgraphics
In romania, before '90s we had over 8 earthours per day...
@sgraphics i guess most of you guys are doing it today? singapore already did it yesterday o.o
ill be playing the starcraft 2 beta srry ; /
@normz
Wouldn't happen to have a spare key on you by chance, would you? ^_^;