Earth Hour could backfire...

[Ironosaur]

I was thinking in class the other day, that everyone will turn off their power during Earth Hour, and inevitably turn it back on at around the same time as soon as it's done.

Well,
When everyone turns on their power after an hour of not using anything, there will be a massive power surge as electricity rushes from the power companies, possibly causing a blackout or brownout.

I hadn't thought about that before, but that's an absolutely ingenious idea to get people to continue not using electricity. Simply ingenious.

[Boss]

Those damn hippies!

[dx5231]

Oh yes. And why exactly do you think that 60 minutes with stuff all around the world turned off would cause a... blackout? This makes no sense.

[Monkey-Monkey]

That is if everyone actually does this!

[PBass]

Even if everyone that turned their power off turned it all back on at the same time, it'd be fine because the companies have more than enough energy to power all the houses and there are cutoffs and backups if for some ludicrous reason that turning the power back on suddenly would actually cause more electrical strain. Not to mention the power companies would know about this by now and would not need to be alerted by Newgrounds members.

[HomicidialFrog]

And we'd want all the electriticy in the world to go, why? Civilization runs off electricity you'd destroy Mankind.

You hippies and your drugs just don't really think do you?

[CrazyWolf783]

I'm just glad our ghetto apartment area doesn't give a shit about Earth Hour and their wont be an electrical surge. So when your stuck fapping to your wall for an hour I'll be playing 360.

[Achilles2]

That probably won't happen unless the power companies are extremely cheap and old.

But what does happen is that more people use flashlights and things of that nature, and the celebrations after Earth Hour is over are so elaborate and grand. The result is that you wind up using more energy than you normally would.

[andhination]

When the fuck is earth hour?

[JoeTheToucan]

I reckon that with the whole place dark, robbers and such will see it as a big opportunity...

[Ungar]

At 3/28/09 03:46 PM, CrazyWolf783 wrote: I'm just glad our ghetto apartment area doesn't give a shit about Earth Hour and their wont be an electrical surge. So when your stuck fapping to your wall for an hour I'll be playing 360.

daaaaamn badass dawg

[jack231]

WTF is a brownout?

[JoeNelly]

I dunno if I'm gonna do it, I doubt I can last a whole hour just sitting in the friggin' dark. I had planned on it, but I doubt I'll do it for a whole hour. The reason I was looking forward to it is cause I think if a lot of people actually participate it'll be fun to go around town in complete darkness.

[Sensationalism]

That's just hilarious!

[Tribal]

At 3/28/09 05:29 PM, JoeNelly wrote: I dunno if I'm gonna do it, I doubt I can last a whole hour just sitting in the friggin' dark.

Who says earth hour is at nighttime for you? The sun doesn't use any electricity if it isn't.

[Mz-frost95-fr]

Earth Hour will never backfire... and it's too hard to explain why that is.

[Shreddy]

what the hells a brownout?

surely thats plumbing related?

man im so funnny :|

[molekh]

At 3/28/09 03:31 PM, Ironosaur wrote:

you dont know what you're talking about