Who's shutting down the Tank for Earth Hour Saturday

[Parker]

It amazes me how people take things so literal. Earthday is meant to promote awareness and to drive home the fact that one person can make a difference. Simply turning off your lights for an hour isn't going to ammount to much in the grand scheme of things, we all know that. The point is not to turn off your lights but to promote thoughtful discussion and self examination. If people choose to turn off the lights then great thanks for taking the time to at least think about it, it's step in the right direction if only a small one.

[Lance]

I'm better than I used to be but my wife is way more energy conscious than me. All her gadgets are battery-operated.

[Treebeard]

My lights are off today and likely won't come back on until sometime tomorrow. I need to replace some endcaps because cleaning them did not fix the problem.

[OceanicCorals-Eugene-]

Originally Posted by outacontrol

this is completely untrue, an incandescent light takes no more energy to turn on than is does to run, an inductive light (metal halide or flourescent) takes a little bit of a peak in energy to start but this only comes into play in cycles of a minute or less. The energy saved in having a light off for 10 or more minutes is way more substantial than the energy to restart it.

and here is an article to support this: http://www.lightingdesignlab.com/art...luorescent.htm

thats quite interesting! thanks for straightening the fact for me, learning something everyday haha

[fkshiu]

Originally Posted by Parker

It amazes me how people take things so literal. Earthday is meant to promote awareness and to drive home the fact that one person can make a difference. Simply turning off your lights for an hour isn't going to ammount to much in the grand scheme of things, we all now that. The point is not to turn off your lights but to promote thoughtful discussion and self examination. If people choose to turn off the lights then great thanks for taking the time to at least think about it, it's step in the right direction if only a small one.

Exactly. The very fact that we are discussing it now is the whole point of it: awareness and discourse.

And for the whole light bulb thing, here's more entertaining proof that it does NOT use more energy to turn a bulb back on than leaving it running:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gdu4wYu48uw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qgM0N7GD5Ic

[globaldesigns]

I don't think so.

I am doing my part for earth day, by keeping my SPS alive... One day they will come to us for help to re-populate the oceans.

[Tom R]

Originally Posted by christyf5

I might turn my lights off early that night but other than my fish tank I think I'm pretty energy conscious. I'll probably sit around in the dark on saturday night just cuz its fun. However convincing my husband to turn the tv off for an hour could be monumental

Ha Christy

Are you feeding him cold beans as well.

[Madreefer]

Originally Posted by wayner

Who's shutting down the Tank for Earth Hour Saturday

You talkin just lights or everything. For me no. I do my part by turning my lights off for a day once a week. I think the corals appreciate a cloudy day once in a while.

[Delphinus]

Earth hour is good if it promotes awareness. Can't argue there.

There are people though who think that's all there is to it is shutting the lights off for an hour "helps." And no, it doesn't. What helps is finding a way to change habits so that the energy footprint can be reduced permanently.

So.. um .. no, I can't shut my tanks off for an hour. That's a life support issue.. but I'm always thinking about ways I can achieve the same results using less energy consumption, and when opportunities present themselves, I make the appropriate changes. I hope this counts for something.

[christyf5]

Originally Posted by Tom R

Ha Christy

Are you feeding him cold beans as well.

I gotta feed him too?? Sheesh!