Tonight is Earth Hour, from 8:30pm, what ever is your local time, the UN wants you to turn off your lights for 60 minutes. This exercise in stupidity is to show solidarity in the fight against global warming.
As anyone who has studied it knows, the only thing man made about global warming is the concept of it.
My initial reaction was to replace all of the CFLs with 100 watt incandescent bulbs but that is as foolish as the people who will be turnig their lights off. They will not save any money, pennies at best, and the reduction on the power grid will be equally negligible.
Although everyone who is going to turn off their lights a replace them with a few candles should keep this in mind. Paraffin, the primary component of most candles, is a hydrocarbon. Two standard candles will emit the same carbon as the energy to power a 15 watt CFL.
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