Will you participate in Earth Hour 2010?

[Pyncduevovene]

Earth Hour in 2010 takes place on Saturday 27 March and is often a worldwide call to action to every single individual, just about every small business and each and every neighborhood across the world.

 

 

 

Are going to you take part in it?

[SH3RL0CK]

No, I do not plan on participating.

[Icefire]

Depends. last year our family ended up looking like we didn't pay our power bill while every one else continued on (Calgary)

[Mr Skeptic]

Are going to you take part in it?

 

No change. The an hour of bragging saving energy is nothing compared to even a little change throughout the rest of the year. But, if you can help raise awareness, please do.

[LeeRoy]

am going, i think it's a good idea

[insane_alien]

bit late aren't you?

[Gilded]

It was certainly a good excuse to envelop everything in darkness and listen to brutal drone music.

[ParanoiA]

I didn't. Sorry. I probably would have though, if that means anything.

 

By the way Gilded, that is still my favorite avatar. I wish I had the full sized pic.

[insane_alien]

seeing as my room(not the whole house unfortunately) doesn't consume energy i didn't feel the need as every hour is earth hour in here.

 

and no, its not heatd through the walls, my room is typically 5-10*C warmer than the rest of the house due to the electronics and how many people are usually in here.

[Sisyphus]

How does that work?

[insane_alien]

a solar panel i found down the scrappies(scrapyard) and some car batteries.

 

as long as i don't have a 24hour session on the xbox it makes enough to power my room continuously.

 

heating isn't an issue due to too good insulation and a southfacing window, infact i usually have my window open to cool the place down.

[Sisyphus]

Nice. Must be a fairly big panel, I would think? I guess it depends on what you're running off it.

[insane_alien]

it is actually. someone junked it because it 'didn't work' 2 minutes of soldering later and i got cheap solar.

 

if you average it out i use 105W of leccy, the solar panel give a max of 400W so it more than covers it.

[Phi for All]

I've never encountered a spammer before who wasn't trying to deviously link us to something costly. Imagine, greenspam!

[SH3RL0CK]

Most appliances don't run on DC power, nor at the voltages likely supplied by the solar panel. How did you address this issue?

[insane_alien]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inverter_%28electrical%29

 

bam

 

these are easily available and have been for ages.

[SH3RL0CK]

No problems with harmonics or noise either? What power rating(s) did you selected for your inverter(s)?

[insane_alien]

not that i've noticed and its a 500W inverter simply becaue i couldn't find ones closer to what i actuall needed.