"Earth Hour" 8:30-9:30 tonight. So turn everything on.
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Jasandjules said:
Surely someone can get the data which shows whether or not demand actually went down in the UK.....
They're not playing ball, why this should happen is anybody's guess, but it will be seen as suspicious:National Grid 7 day power demand website page one minute ago said:
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as much as i dont buy the climate change spin, quite often the streetlights go out in my neck of the woods and the area is plunged into darkness. its only then that you appreciate just how many stars there are in the sky. on a normal day you can see the brightest, boldest and most familiar constellations, but on a night like that you can see countless more. it would be nice to see them on a regular basis...
pablo said:
as much as i dont buy the climate change spin, quite often the streetlights go out in my neck of the woods and the area is plunged into darkness. its only then that you appreciate just how many stars there are in the sky. on a normal day you can see the brightest, boldest and most familiar constellations, but on a night like that you can see countless more. it would be nice to see them on a regular basis...
Light pollution is one of those genuine environmental issues that the environ mentalists are marginalising over their baseless obsession with lemonade fizz.For the sake of a few quid, street and other municipal plus corporate lighting could be directed where it's needed (down) not where it isn't and where it's wasted (up). There are local statutes near most professional observatories banning development in order to keep 'dark skies' but with little investment and some more thought in the design and application of illumination for various purposes, the problem would be much less anyway.
It affects wildlife as well as human amateur and professional astronomers, city residents can often hear a continuous dawn chorus from songbirds through the night, as it never gets fully dark and the birds react accordingly; migration can also be affected, as can marine creatures such as egg-laying and newly hatched turtles, whose instinct seems to use starlight reflected off the sea as an inceased brightness directional beacon - they're now drawn off the beach away from the sea towards artificial lighting. And so on.
ShadownINja said:
Jasandjules said:
Surely someone can get the data which shows whether or not demand actually went down in the UK.....
What would it prove? Turning the lights out uses less power?Jasandjules said:
ShadownINja said:
Jasandjules said:
Surely someone can get the data which shows whether or not demand actually went down in the UK.....
What would it prove? Turning the lights out uses less power?Gassing Station | News, Politics & Economics | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff