Earth hour - What a fraud.

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  1. sachin410

    sachin410 Illustrious Member

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    #41
    In India, we have numerous "earth hours" every month.....

    "Power cut" is a routine here.

    We need no "earth hour" to remind us the importance of energy conservation....:D.
     
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  2. yfs1

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    #42
    You also have train safety awareness hours where 1000 hang off a train meant for 500 people
     
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    #43
    What a load of baloney - a completely empty gesture -

    As to why we don't do this permanently - it saves no energy; modern displays use the same amount of power regardless of what they display.

    I don't drive a car, I haven't been on a plane in years, but I've got one of the richest and most energy consuming companies nagging me to turn my lights off for an hour?
    When's stop nagging me hour?
     
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  4. MattKNC

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    #44
    Kind of silly, IMO. Leaving everything as is and changing the logo as they usually do when a holiday or important event comes up would have the same effect.

    I'll make sure that I run my dishwasher and washing machine precisely at 8 p.m.! ;-)
     
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  5. Dollar

    Dollar Active Member

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    #46
    That's nice of them to support Earth Hour.
     
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    #47
    Thats google america... We're talking about Google UK.
     
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  8. anarmyofme

    anarmyofme Well-Known Member

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    #48
    Most of the time spent surfing online is on the results pages, not on the actual search page. The results are still white so the gesture falls pretty short.
     
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  10. Rintrus

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    #50
    It wont help anything but whatever... I will participate...
     
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  11. John_McCann

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    #51
    Well, I am going to do it, it's just 48 minutes away for me... All lights will be switched off, hopefully.. If the other people in my family don't mind :p ... I'll just be playing on my PSP and listening to my iPod during that 1 hour :p

    Yawn......
     
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    #52
    that's an ugly looking page but it's nice to see them taking up a cause like that.
     
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  13. Rintrus

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    #53
    ''be playing on my PSP and listening to my iPod during that 1 hour :p''

    Wish I had one :D
     
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    #54
    Mine was a few hours ago, I really couldn't be bothered to voluntarily, have one hour of complete boredom.
     
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  15. Hecky

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    #55
    Damn, I missed googles background going black

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    Not the most exciting thing in the world, but this is google! Imaging having a link on google.coms homepage.
     
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    #56
    participated in this, well it's really nice to hear some crickets for a change
     
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  18. Dollar

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    #58
    Google logo looks like crap against a black background xD
     
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    #59
    Who cares what a load of crap, who cares about the world, its a load of crap that deserves to end soon anyway!

    The world going really bad at moment, the future is gloom no matter what we do!
     
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  20. hello_welcome

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    #60
    ohhhhh really its horrible <:D>
     
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