calling all CP hippies

[Lost User]

I was sitting on the couch watching telly with the Mrs. About 8:30 I said to her "I think it's earth hour", she grunted and turned the volume up while I looked at all the lights on and felt a twinge of guilt. What can I say? I tried.

[S Senthil Kumar]

If there was some award for saving electricity, TamilNadu would have won it a long time ago. Except for Chennai, no other place has 24 hours of uninterrupted power; 2 hours of load shedding in cities and 4 in villages for the past year atleast. And to think that we're yet to hit peak summer :(

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[Lost User]

All the lights I could have turned off are LED, so if I had it would have saved a grand total of about 10 or 12 watts (the small bulbs are 1 watt, the big ones are 2.5). We were out, so the lights were off anyway. Cheers, Drew.

[Lost User]

I wonder how many people on CP know who Fred Dagg is?

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[CaptainSeeSharp]

I turned on all of the burners of the electric stove, the oven, the dryer, all the lights, I lit a fire, and started the car.

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[Steve Mayfield]

For some reason, all of the lights in my house were just a little bit brighter between 8:30 pm and 9:30 pm last night :laugh:

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[Chris Austin]

My house is powered by solar and battery back-ups. So, there was no point.

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[Rajesh R Subramanian]

A shame! You should have stayed back after lighting the fire. :)

“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

[Abhinav S]

We had a power cut. There were no lights. :)

Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

So, you didn't have much of an option, did you? :laugh:

“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

[Abhinav S]

No. The local power station was making their contribution to "Earth Day".

Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...

[Rajesh R Subramanian]

It might appear that our powergrids are obsessed with celebrating Earth Days? How about "Earth Month"? :)

“Follow your bliss.” – Joseph Campbell

[Mark_Wallace]

He's an NZ rip-off of Hoages. (Me? Stir it? Never!)

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[PIEBALDconsult]

Whazzat? If, according to the posts, it was between 20:30 and 21:30, then I was at a party with a bunch of hippies... Actually, today was the last day of the local Renaissance Festival and it was the cast party. Very similar to Burning Man anyway. You might find coverage of the fire we had this morning somewhere.

[Andy_L_J]

If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?

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[Abhinav S]

We just celebrate Earth day every day. :)

Me, I'm dishonest. And a dishonest man you can always trust to be dishonest.
Honestly. It's the honest ones you want to watch out for...

[Mark_Wallace]

Andy_L_J wrote:

If it weren't for your gumboots, where would you be?

You would be in hospital or infirmary?

I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

[peterchen]

Me, actually. I turned off the 30W lights, left the 200W computer running (only to catch up with Elaine!) But that's ok, since I understand earth day not as an introduction to better darksitting, but a sign: we are willing to maybe consider some changes.

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[Sandeep Mewara]

We have multiple Earth Hour on a daily basis! :-D

[Stuart Jeffery]

Sure did! The light from my monitor whilst playing games was plenty enough to light the room... ...oh wait I think I missed the point of the exercise. Oh well!