Vatican Goes Dark For Earth Hour

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[Era Might]

The Pope is probably yelling from his office, "Who turned out my lights! I'm writing an Encyclical in here!"

[Apotheoun]

It's prettier with its lights on.

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[quote name='Apotheoun' post='1819572' date='Mar 29 2009, 11:43 AM']It's prettier with its lights on.[/quote]
I agree.
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[jeffpugh]

Sweet. Nice pics.

[Fidei Defensor]

here's the whole slide show of different parts of the world going dark:

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[Mr.Cat]

Down with light and sound pollution!

[Apotheoun]

Almost everything in the series of pictures looks better with the lights turned on.

[CatherineM]

We had ours off last night. Any excuse for a candle light dinner.

[Church Punk]

I like it better with no lights on then you can see the stars!

Lots of people in the city never even see the stars or milky way before....that's sad

[Apotheoun]

If I were in Rome I would want to see St. Peter's. I can see the stars anytime.

[Galloglasses' Alt]

Have to agree with ApothLights are often used for decorative, aesthetic affect.

The buildings and monuments with the lights off look.... abandoned.

Altough I will admit that the mass turning off of lights would save the accumulative total of BILLIONS of Bill payer's money in America Alone. Providing a sizeable portion of businnesses and people turned off the lights. but outside of saving money I could care bloody well less about this.

Bad hour to be the owner of power plants.

Edited March 29, 2009 by Galloglasses' Alt

[Lil Red]

[quote name='Church Punk' post='1819609' date='Mar 29 2009, 11:14 AM']I like it better with no lights on then you can see the stars!

Lots of people in the city never even see the stars or milky way before....that's sad[/quote]
+J.M.J.+
that honestly makes me laugh. people who live in big cities are silly.

[the lords sheep]

OH! That's what it was! My parents and I went to St. Peter's last night, and they were disappointed that they didn't get to see it lit up again before they left this morning....

[philothea]

[quote name='Galloglasses' Alt' post='1819662' date='Mar 29 2009, 02:56 PM']Have to agree with ApothLights are often used for decorative, aesthetic affect.

The buildings and monuments with the lights off look.... abandoned.

Altough I will admit that the mass turning off of lights would save the accumulative total of BILLIONS of Bill payer's money in America Alone. Providing a sizeable portion of businnesses and people turned off the lights. but outside of saving money I could care bloody well less about this.

Bad hour to be the owner of power plants.[/quote]
Not to mention that the effect (at least in 2008, maybe the power plants were more prepared this year?) is to cause the plants in areas that participated widely to overload and have to shut down.

And it takes days to start back up.

The worst possible thing you can do for the power grid is switch everything (either off or on) suddenly. If people all over an area want to take [i]turns[/i] shutting off the power, that would be useful. But everyone at once? Useless at best, and most likely harmful. This whole earth hour idea is based on a false understanding of how the electrical generation system works.