THE LAST DITCH
Many thanks to Watts up with that? (a new blog to me) for starting my day with a smile. The festival of smug luddism that was "Earth Hour," much trumpeted by the mainstream media, was widely ignored by consumers. The graphs tell the story, at least in the homeland of the tree-hugging, Toyota Prius-driving Hollywood celeb. The first shows consumption on the day of "Earth Hour". The second is for the next day. Does anyone have comparable UK data?
Yes but Tom, there is luddism and luddism. It’s not all smug.
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The demand figures should be here:-
http://www.nationalgrid.com/uk/Electricity/Data/Realtime/Demand/Demand8.htm
But it appears to be broken.
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The historic figures are out for March now, I reckon there is a distinct lack of dip.
Blogged about over at Shades of Grey
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Tom is a retired international lawyer. He was a partner in a City of London law firm and spent almost twenty years abroad serving clients from all over the world.
Returning to London on retirement in 2011, he was dismayed to discover how much liberty had been lost in the UK while he was away.
He’s a classical liberal (libertarian, if you must) who, like his illustrious namesake, considers that
“…government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one.”
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