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Off Topic => General Off Topic => Topic started by: djavo on March 31, 2012, 07:35:02 pm

Title: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: djavo on March 31, 2012, 07:35:02 pm
Do it! Also turn off computer you addicts.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Christo on March 31, 2012, 07:36:26 pm
Meh.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: djavo on March 31, 2012, 07:38:48 pm
SAVE THE PLANET!

http://www.youtube.com/earthhour (http://www.youtube.com/earthhour)
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: [ptx] on March 31, 2012, 07:39:30 pm
Yeah, well, it is not like the dams here are going to stop producing electricity for that hour. It'll just go to waste, rather than into satisfying my need for light and entertainment :)

Green'ish power > sitting in the dark.
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Post by: Overdriven on March 31, 2012, 07:40:27 pm
Lol no. Things like this are a bit dumb.
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Post by: bosco on March 31, 2012, 07:50:54 pm
I went outside and did some burnouts with my car instead.
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Post by: Herkkutatti on March 31, 2012, 08:00:37 pm
I will turn on my other computer and tv too! :twisted: such a waste
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Christo on March 31, 2012, 08:04:35 pm
I will turn on my other computer and tv too! :twisted: such a waste

lol you even leech electricity.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Herkkutatti on March 31, 2012, 08:21:09 pm
lol you even leech electricity.
there is many many things i leech, Mostly blood but lets not talks about that...
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Post by: Christo on March 31, 2012, 08:23:30 pm
Fair enough.
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Post by: Materia on March 31, 2012, 08:27:50 pm
Destroying this planet, is the only way to solve the humanity problem.
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Post by: Latvian on March 31, 2012, 08:36:42 pm
fuck it  while i am at work i even got my phone charger plugged in at home so its leeching electricty even now ^^
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Tears of Destiny on March 31, 2012, 09:20:25 pm
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY)
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: SixThumbs on March 31, 2012, 10:49:22 pm
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY)

I just read about that a week ago but it's like anything else here in the U.S. If it's not going to make someone on the hill money or unlock a revolving door for them then it's not going to be implemented. We need a Rockefeller for alternative energy sources.

On a side note: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BB0aFPXr4n4
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Kafein on March 31, 2012, 10:53:29 pm
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY)

This. I'm not against sparing energy, but those "stop X during one hour" campaigns don't give any significant result, except on the public.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Teeth on April 01, 2012, 12:37:25 pm
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactor (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK367T7h6ZY)
Too lazy to watch it entirely. Does this method produce nuclear waste with a tremendously high half-life?
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Kafein on April 01, 2012, 12:51:11 pm
Too lazy to watch it entirely. Does this method produce nuclear waste with a tremendously high half-life?

Who cares about nuclear waste ? We got so much space to put it in we are actually confused as to where it should be buried. Not to mention that by the end of the century we will probably be throwing it into magma or in space, be it the moon, the sun or asteroids.

And actually he says thorium produces less garbage than uranium by factors of hundreds
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: SixThumbs on April 01, 2012, 04:41:34 pm
I was going to make an incredibly insensitive joke about what we could do with our spent nuclear waste but then I got depressed thinking about the implications.
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Post by: Teeth on April 01, 2012, 05:18:13 pm
Who cares about nuclear waste ? We got so much space to put it in we are actually confused as to where it should be buried. Not to mention that by the end of the century we will probably be throwing it into magma or in space, be it the moon, the sun or asteroids.

And actually he says thorium produces less garbage than uranium by factors of hundreds
Eventually it is going to be a problem and I doubt having to shoot it into space is going to outweigh the benefits of nuclear energy. Dropping it into magma however sounds like a nice idea. Still think its kinda shortsighted to just start producing unsafe materials and expect the future generations to find a solution for it.
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Post by: Angantyr on April 01, 2012, 05:57:27 pm
Agreed, we should instead focus our technologies and intelligentisia on harnessing the tremendous energies of the Sun, Sea and Earth before anything else, especially before energy sources that pollute our planet for hundreds of thousands of years (for some nuclear fission waste several million, in comparison homo sapiens have only existed for a few hundred thousand years).

Hydroelectric dams, windmills, geo- and solarthermal energy, etc. already many nations get about 10-15% of their energy from these sources, and some much more:

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About 81 percent of total primary energy supply in Iceland is derived from domestically produced renewable energy sources. In 2007, geothermal energy provided about 66 percent of primary energy, the share of hydropower was 15 percent, and fossil fuels (mainly oil) 19 percent.[1] The main use of geothermal energy is for space heating with the heat being distributed to buildings through extensive district-heating systems.[1] About 85% of all houses in Iceland are heated with geothermal energy.[2]
Renewable energy provides 100 percent of electricity production, with about 70 percent coming from hydropower and 30 percent from geothermal power.[1] Most of the hydropower plants are owned by Landsvirkjun (the National Power Company) which is the main supplier of electricity in Iceland.[2]
- Renewable energy in Iceland (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_in_Iceland)
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Tears of Destiny on April 01, 2012, 06:23:00 pm
Eventually it is going to be a problem and I doubt having to shoot it into space is going to outweigh the benefits of nuclear energy. Dropping it into magma however sounds like a nice idea. Still think its kinda shortsighted to just start producing unsafe materials and expect the future generations to find a solution for it.

Watch the damn video then debate you silly numbskull, don't act like one of those freshmen who blither first and research second. It will allow you to better construct an arguement. Don't be so silly, you used more time and energy reading and typing, then watching the very simple 5 minute video.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Kafein on April 02, 2012, 03:27:52 am
Watch the damn video then debate you silly numbskull, don't act like one of those freshmen who blither first and research second. It will allow you to better construct an arguement. Don't be so silly, you used more time and energy reading and typing, then watching the very simple 5 minute video.

Tbh, you are better watching the original TED 10 minute video. It's clearer.


Eventually it is going to be a problem and I doubt having to shoot it into space is going to outweigh the benefits of nuclear energy.

I don't think so. Satellite launches are quite a common thing nowadays. We got the technology we need to begin a "nuclear waste to space" program, but that would be useless since we really don't have any problems dealing with it currently.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Falka on April 02, 2012, 05:54:17 pm
The planet is fine. The people are fucked. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c)
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: SixThumbs on April 02, 2012, 10:02:34 pm
The planet is fine. The people are fucked. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W33HRc1A6c)

Guess you didn't click my link. I really do miss that guy though.
Title: Re: Turn off your lights at 19:30 GMT to save planet!
Post by: Falka on April 02, 2012, 10:52:56 pm
Heh, no, I didn't  :wink: That guy was great, I discovered him recently and watch all his films. Sadly his books aren't so great, at least at first look.