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Originally Posted by Breathless Horror
It actually can be a significant amount of energy, but I think it's more to raise awareness.
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I think IsolatedReptile is right, it won't be much energy in the overall picture. Unless people change their habits for more than an hour. It should be interesting to see what figures get published, on that wiki page for the previous one:
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The Herald Sun equated this with "taking 48,613 cars off the road for one hour"
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Which it did say was the same as 6 cars for a year, but someone seems to have deleted that now (it is correct using the 48613 figure).
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Solomon used eight years of electricity usage data to conclude that the Earth Hour-inspired drop was only 6.33%, and that after other potential factors were taken into account, only 2.10%, "statistically indistinguishable from zero."
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It would be nice to see a drop in use over a longer time period but
