Opinion

[straeg]

All of this came because I was very frustrated to fact that if I pay something to a big fucking corporation, the transaction will take mere seconds and now when I finally had ability to gain some money from them, suddenly this will take days before they're actually able to transfer it back to me. Just because it's just more income to them waive the

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[tazpa]

"Guns don't kill people, people do."

Guns = factories

[straeg]

Yes of course it's all about people's spending habits, factories produce goods to people spending them but the point is that turning off lights at your home makes absolutely no difference.

[moonflake]

I think in the end it might. If it becomes a big enough trend, companies and factories will have to take it into consideration if they want to keep making money. One person can do nothing of course, but there are plenty of people on earth, and eventually that little trickle will turn into a river. And there's a strange thing about it, if you do nothing, then you can be sure no one else does either. But if you do do something, you can be sure someone is doing something too.

[straeg]

Yes but the saving is relatively small, actually, very small. It takes much more drastic changes in habits to actually really save energy. For example warming bathroom's floor usually consumes about half of the all energy consumption per household. Things which are mandatory like using oven, keeping refrigerator cold etc. tends to take that 90% of household's energy consumptions and people just simply can't turn these things off. Not even to mention the original point that it's the machines in factories all around the world which really makes the difference. If all the people in the world would be able to have say two regular light bulbs kept off two hours more than now, that would mean something like savings of 30 terawatts annually. That's roughly 0.2% of world's power consumption. Doesn't really sound like it would make any difference at all.