A major world wide power outage tommorow night. Specifically at 9pm. Its because of this stupid "turn your lights off for an hour" thing. Yea, so what happens when all these millions of people go back to turn their power back on? A major overload on the grid which will cause complete electrical failure from too much of an overload.

The math has been done too. It has been calculated that the amount over power needed at one time will completeley over load all the grids.

Average use for family of 4: 450kwh/month.

1 month = 730.484398 hours

= 1.62329866222222222222222222222222 kwh/h

ans x (estimated amount of people participating) 4,500,000

=7304843.98 kwh/h

SO....

The grids cant handle this much power. Sure, there are thousands of grids around the world, but it still works out to be a major overload on the system. Eh, theres a website somewhere that figured it all out better than I did.

Bah! People are ignorant. They just wanna do this so they feel like they`re "saving the earth!".

Well, better prepare my generator...

My power better not go out. I gotta get ready for STEVER BYRNE'S HAPPY HOUR. Been looking forward to this for a while.

time to buy stock in batteries and water

Omg, not enough waters. Must buy some from the internets.

prochem, your calculation is completly wrong (confusing energy with power).

But anyway an overload is possible, but (i think) improbable.

Eh, these aren't my calculations. Some website made these. But yea, I still predict an overload.

Well, I guess I was wrong. Although, at about 9:20pm, our lights went off for about 10 sec. Maybe just a coincidence.

Now is that your 9 Pm or my 9 Pm. would be interesting if the east coast got a massive backout again. Hearing all those New Yorkers talking about those strange white things in the sky at night was too funny back the last time it happened in 2003

I seemed to have missed this "save the earth turn-off-your-lights" thingie - must've been too busy taking out my garbage to think of flipping any switches. Either that, or spending too much time in stop and go Los Angeles trafic this weekend.

But don't laugh at the water issue - it's a crisis in more parts of the world than not, we're just fortunate and immune since we have the luxury of suckling off the tap if we wanted to.

Anyone hear about that water purifier that was devloped by this inventor named Dean Kamen? If not, read up on it. It's fascinating, a marvelous invention that's been around for a few years and will be interesting to see how it catches on especially in countries where potable water is a grave issue.

When I used to participate in wilderness expeditions, we would have these tablets that dissolved in water. They would purify any lake/ocean water in 10 sec. Pretty handy to have but awfully expensive.

my family did the earth hour. I felt cheezy for doing it, but I know its for the better.

As for water.... I heard China has no fresh water at all anymore. Their only way to getting fresh water is by purifying/desalinize ocean and sewer/standing water. Of course the other option is importing too...

100% agree water is nothing to laugh about. Pretty soon there is gonna be war over fresh water.

I cant believe how many people feel the same way Bosco. A lot of peeps are slightly embarrassed to be environmentally aware or something. They feel lame n cheezy to be aware of the growing problems with the environment. Hopefully that'll change....

I want to adobt a highway by my house.....