Earth Hour

Recently there email about "TNB intend to sue WWF for organizing Earth Hour" circulating around. I received quite a number of emails from friends on this.

After Google-ed for a while, well, found out that its NOT true.

I believe the content of the email originated from http://nose4news.wordpress.com/2010/03/25/tnb-to-sue-wwf-over-earth-hour/. But I guess the owner deleted the flaming post.

The effect of Earth Hour on Power Generated?

Theres however a news about how much Earth Hour actually contributed to reduction of electricity production - ZERO. Simply because the energy that produced by power plants are not reduced, thus Earth Hour has zero effect on change of carbon emissions.... more.

How much that 1 hour contributed?

Read more about the statistics at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_hour#Measurement_of_reduction_in_electricity_use

Earth Hour is NOT a bad idea.

I'm NOT posting this to show that "Earth Hour" is a bad idea. Just to suggest that maybe

1. Earth Hour organizer can liaise with power producers to reduce the power production. Maybe in terms of reducing the electricity reserve margin.
2. Organize Earth Hour (or similar events) more frequent to have actual impact on the power consumption. I mean 1 hour a year is just too insignificant. (But still a good idea for "awareness", once a year...)