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the_lone_wolf
27-02-08, 07:32 PM
because it's energy saving day

currently running 780MW more than a normal days power consumption as of 19:32

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7266978.stm

:rolleyes:
Stu
27-02-08, 08:01 PM
WTF have religious leaders got to do with it? :???:





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Stu
27-02-08, 08:03 PM
Only 95.9MW over normal
the_lone_wolf
27-02-08, 08:08 PM
Only 95.9MW over normal

oops, should have read 78MW in original post, not 780, edited...

still, that's 78000000 Watts, so not a bad effort, now i think i need another cuppa, don't forget to fill it before you start or it'll boil too quickly...
tigersaw
27-02-08, 09:21 PM
Airports currently running at 1.3 Mega VA
Might turn a light bulb off then
Stu
28-02-08, 03:25 PM
Now running at 667.4 MW over what the National Grid would expect on a normal day. So no one is doing anything useful about this :roll:

Which is less than 1% - but the wrong way!
Ceri JC
28-02-08, 03:51 PM
...unless of course you have energy saving lightbulbs, which should only be used in places where they will be on for long periods of time (they are very ineffecient till they warm up, moreso than normal ones).
tigersaw
28-02-08, 03:57 PM
...unless of course you have energy saving lightbulbs, which should only be used in places where they will be on for long periods of time (they are very ineffecient till they warm up, moreso than normal ones).

And the light spectrum content is not linear making them unconfortable to use, they dont fit the lamp sockets anyway and contain mercury. Brilliant invention :rolleyes: