8760 hrs. in a year; shut off for 1. what a joke!

The scam continues.

Amen to that boys!
The scam continues!
Conserve,conserve,and as we do that and reduce our monthly hydro bills,the overall revenue for B.C.Hydro drops.
So what do they do?
They raise the price...33%!
That worked well,didn't it?

Bad timing for Earth Hour with the big UFC pay-per-view on at the same time.

I guess Dana White never got the memo.

Who cares that doesn't raise awareness. Who makes these dumb things anyways. You want to cut down on power go solar. Geez I have been gabbing about for years. Nobody wants to change. I mean why should they . It's everyone else's problem.

I should have asked my bank if they were gonna turn out their lights for an hour today. I would have asked in a non-suspicious way.

i didn't notice any of the big box stores cutting back on their lighting in the stores.just have a look at the number of lights used in walmart, i'm sure we could all find our way around the store with about half the lights used.

still don't know how turning off a few lights for an hour conserves energy.

BC Hydro has to supply British Columbians first, at a regulated price. Anything they have left over they can sell on an open market for whatever they can get, which is usually quite a bit more. So the less power we use, the more money they make. That's why they want us to conserve.

True jonnypg,so they tell us... and the surplus they sell is supposed to help keep the price we pay down to an affordable level.
So how come we are going to get a 33% increase?
I guess if I will be paying 33% more after all the reno's I have done and money I have spent to conserve,I should just use 33% more power?
I still call bullsh**t!

If turning off the lights for one hour saves just one muskrat its worth it.

Just a way the govt uses to count the number of sheeple!

Earth hour is so the enviro-freaks can make themselves feel better and try to deny they are completely dependent on electricity and big industry like the rest of us. It gives them reason to sneer at their neighbour who doesn't turn off his lights.

If a crackhead puts down his pipe for an hour a year, does that make him a better crackhead?

I turned on every single light and power source - my protest :)

Hopefully your ice cream did not melt.

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I figure of the $400 or so I spend on electricity every year, that about $150 of that is for lights.

So, that hour of no lights saved me 17 cents.

If I put that in the bank at the current 0% or so interest, and do that for 10 years, I should have $1.70 by 2020.

Well, we were all gaming on the computers last night during earth hour. Now I understand the idea of saving energy, and that I probably used more power by our computer systems than if we had left our lights on for 24 hours, but I doubt I did a tenth the damage to the environment as some who light up grand fires in their back yards so they can roast a few marshmallows.

Whether a high end gaming computer or a PS3, they all use about the same power as 20-50 of those new compact florescent bulbs, 3-6 old Incandescent bulbs, 2-3 Halogen bulbs (Surprise these are about the most inefficient light, but they do give off a beautiful white light), and if you are on the cutting edge about 100 household LED lights.

More emphasis needs to be made at the point on purchase when people are putting fixtures into their homes on the relative power usage. (That track lighting with Halogen bulbs will use 200 watts of power, but the one you can screw CFL or LED lights into will use about 60 or 20 watts respectively.) But that is a story for another day.

In short I feel having people sit around in the dark being miserable, is not the way to show people what being more energy efficient is about, it just makes them relate saving energy, with living a miserable life. Helping them replace old inefficient lighting and appliances that do a better job and lower their hydro bills that will make them think saving energy is a good idea.

Have you seen the price of one of them LED bulbs,about $50.00 each!the price has to come down before I replace all my bulbs with these.

I put two more logs in my wood burning stove, went outside, lit a fire with a gallon and a half of oil, wood was a bit green, fired up the gas powered generator, hooked it up to the stereo, put some fertilizer on the lawn, and poured a couple of rye and cokes.

Then I looked at the house and realized that I had left all the lights on, had a dvd on tv, a turkey was in the oven and the wife was doing laundry.

I did my part, to bad I forgot to tell everyone else in the house.

Increase in Population = more Energy use!
What was the Number 50 Years ago and what is it now, this is the real Problem, turning your Lights of for an Hour amounts to little.

I did a cost and risk analysis before participating in this.I had planned a family game night by candlelight for the earth hour, until I started to visualize what the hour would be like through my head.One of the visions I had was the dog getting excited about something and knocking some candles over,and in the process setting my house on fire.The costs associated with the fire to myself and everyone else far outweighed,any possible savings from my participation.Therefore,I decided to take the dog for a walk for this hour and failed to remind my wife about earth hour,and in doing so,I suppose I contributed in my own way.

The people in North Korea do my energy saving for me. You have seen the satellite pictures of that country at night, haven't you? No mercury filled light bulbs for them to worry about.

One cannot assume that just because we conserve some power in BC that the Americans are just sitting there waiting to buy it. It all depends on the time of the year.

In the hot summertime they will buy because of the heat for air conditioners. It the winter they will buy because of the cold, however there are times of the year (like now) when they do not need extra power for either. So they wouldnt buy it.

You would save some pollution to the atmosphere, if you saved power by reducing the amount of coal you burnt, but that wouldnt apply to power produced at any of the Dams in BC.

So lets assume that we all killed our lights etc; for an hour. What would happen.
BC Hydro would have a surplus of power on thier hands and would therefore reduce the amount of power being generated, the power saved would disapear into thin air and it would just be an excercise in futility.

Its much like having me save gas here in Prince George so that someone in Europe or China can burn it. At the end of the day it will be consumed, its just a question of where, and at what price. If you want to save gasoline here so that it can be sold into the USA or somewhere else be my guest. I intend to burn my share until its gone, and then see what they come up with as an alternate.