So this past saturday was earth hour. from 8 - 9 pm everyone voluntarily turned their lights off for one hour to measure the impact it had on teh electricity grid.


Ironically enough the result was * drum roll * the entire grid for Orleans (an ottawa subburb) failed at 9:01 PM as everyone in teh damn city turned their lights back on simultaneously.


anyone else participate?

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

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Originally posted by colonelcrisp Ironically enough the result was * drum roll * the entire grid for Orleans (an ottawa subburb) failed at 9:01 PM as everyone in teh damn city turned their lights back on simultaneously.

LMAO ... thats really ironic indeed.

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anyone else participate?

Surely enough, I did .... I went to bed at 8pm and had every single possible electronic appliance of mine in OFF mode.

lol... I was playing Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance that hour. Totally forgot... But it was worth it..

I turn my lights off when I go to sleep. That's my 8 earth hours.

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While it was a great idea i think it would be better if they asked everyone to go without lights for 1 hour at some point during hte day as opposed to everyone doing it at the same time. power grids cant handle instantaneous load spikes like that, it tends to break things

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN I have 3 hobbies: gaming, DJing & correcting maladjusted fools on the internet.

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Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN Yeah, I’d like to know what horrible, scarring incident in your childhood turned you into such an ignorant, intellectual-hating philistine?

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Originally posted by Krypton lol... I was playing Supreme Commander: Forged Alliance that hour. Totally forgot... But it was worth it.. I turn my lights off when I go to sleep. That's my 8 earth hours.

Damnit...I must get mine working...

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The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

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Originally posted by Fir3start3r Damnit...I must get mine working...

PKC is on GPGnet too. Once I get my computer built which should be by May with that gov't stimulus check, I'll be on there all the time...

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Originally posted by colonelcrisp So this past saturday was earth hour. from 8 - 9 pm everyone voluntarily turned their lights off for one hour to measure the impact it had on teh electricity grid.

I would have had I not a million things to do that hour...
I was actually looking forward to participating too.
I always turn off all things I'm not using anyways so I don't feel bad.

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Ironically enough the result was * drum roll * the entire grid for Orleans (an ottawa subburb) failed at 9:01 PM as everyone in teh damn city turned their lights back on simultaneously. anyone else participate?

Idiots.
I could have told them that...

/used to work for Toronto Hydro 13.8kV Underground Distribution Dept...
//scary shit honestly...

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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

Yeah I did

went out to a resteraunt with a hot girl, i got there and i thought why the fuck are they using candles? wasnt till the next day i realised earth hour

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Originally posted by tathi went out to a resteraunt with a hot girl, i got there and i thought why the fuck are they using candles? wasnt till the next day i realised earth hour

LOL!

Ah come on, that would have been romantic and all that stuff...

Hopefully you didn't complain during the date...

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"...End? No, the journey doesn't end here. Death is just another path...one that we all must take.
The grey rain-curtain of this world rolls back, and all change to silver glass...and then you see it...
...white shores...and beyond...the far green country under a swift sunrise."

I wake up at 8pm to go to work, so I turned everything on at that moment

lol, reminds me of a scenario in the original SimCity game where everyone flushed their toilet simultaneously after the superbowl and the nuclear reactor exploded.