Comments on: Las Vegas Earth Hour 2009

By: DJ

DJ — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 20:27:02 +0000

I love that I saw pics of people lighting homes with candles, and crowds of people carrying candles thru the streets in Europe.
Yeah, burning candles. That should help a lot – DOH!

By: Bill

Bill — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 18:06:05 +0000

It probably wasted more energy powering the lights back up than it ever could have saved. I’m sure no difference was made, just some shower-needing granola crunchers felt better for a while.

By: Richard

Richard — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 12:12:26 +0000

I hope everyone enjoyed the annual “Owgore time waster and sky falling celebration”.

By: jimbohassler

jimbohassler — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:11:40 +0000

Another fine example of the coming new Fascism. Earth Hour reminds of the Pink Floyd song “SHEEP”.

Damn, I forgot how ugly Shemp was but he was the best Stooge.

By: infidel

infidel — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 06:05:52 +0000

GMAFB I turned all the lights on

By: KLAW

KLAW — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 04:14:06 +0000

I need no light,I dig that town.

By: Bella

Bella — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:45:14 +0000

PaulV and Kelly, you are truly amazing and 100% correct.
Some people are trying to make a statement but it’s not
even close to what is needed to help the environment.
It’s basically a power surge in the bump of life.

By: kelly

kelly — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 03:14:09 +0000

this is pretty much the dumbest thing of all time. some idealist vision that saves a minuscule amount of energy once a year (maybe 1 hundredth of 1 percent of energy usage for the lightbulbs affected) but does nothing long term, congratulations, you accomplished nothing. the amount of energy used to recycle goods such as paper or aluminum is huge… spend the dollars on something that will make a slight difference, one weekend credit towards replacing incandescent bulbs for energy efficient ones, get a major retailer to give a discount if you provide your own cloth bags. claiming you’re trying to make a difference when your end result is clearly going to be nothing makes me wonder who is getting the check on the back end.

By: PaulV

PaulV — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:49:14 +0000

Earth hour sucks, because people change the load on the power grid by a large amount instantaneously. Then some generators go into idle mode, but not before a surge. And the opposite happens at the end of the hour.

I think a more reasonable approach would be an earth month. Or an earth decade. Oh wait, we will have that soon when the coal and oil runs out. LOL

By: isiah

isiah — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 02:00:05 +0000

Hahaha my carbon footprint is bigger then yours.