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To: Brumar89 who wrote (298897)	3/30/2009 6:45:11 AM
From: Brumar89	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793955

Al Gore Leaves The Light On For Ya By Kleinheider Posted on March 29, 2009 at 12:00 pm Even during Earth Hour. President of the Tennessee Center For Policy Research Drew Johnson takes a Saturday drive by Al Gore’s during the time most environmentalists went dark: I pulled up to Al’s house, located in the posh Belle Meade section of Nashville, at 8:48pm – right in the middle of Earth Hour. I found that the main spotlights that usually illuminate his 9,000 square foot mansion were dark, but several of the lights inside the house were on. In fact, most of the windows were lit by the familiar blue-ish hue indicating that floor lamps and ceiling fixtures were off, but TV screens and computer monitors were hard at work. (In other words, his house looked the way most houses look about 1:45am when their inhabitants are distractedly watching “Cheaters” or “Chelsea Lately” reruns.) The kicker, though, were the dozen or so floodlights grandly highlighting several trees and illuminating the driveway entrance of Gore’s mansion. I [kid] you not, my friends, the savior of the environment couldn’t be bothered to turn off the gaudy lights that show off his goofy trees. This, of course, would be the same Drew Johnson who exposed Gore’s excessive energy use at his home back in 2007. politics.nashvillepost.com

To: Brumar89 who wrote (298897)	4/2/2009 11:50:13 AM
From: TimF	9 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793955

Earth Hour, candles and carbon There’s one thing in particular that bothers me about Earth Hour - these people who electric lights and then go and light up candles, and think that they’re helping do something about anthropogenic forcing of climate change. The widespread practice of misguided eco-Luddites turning off their lights for Earth Hour and burning candles as a source of light is grossly misguided and actually contributes to increased carbon dioxide emissions. Yes, I know candles are nice and romantic - but you’re taking paraffin wax, in the form of a candle, and burning it, very inefficiently, at a low temperature. This stuff is pure hydrocarbon - it’s a heavy alkane fraction distilled straight off crude oil. This stuff is getting so scarce that nations are prepared to go to war just to secure it, remember? A candle flame burns at a low temperature - so it’s a thermodynamically very inefficient source of energy - and most of the energy released in a candle is wasted as heat, anyway. Even if 80% of your electricity comes from coal and fossil fuel fired power stations, as it does in Australia, burning candles is very polluting and certainly very greenhouse gas and carbon dioxide emissions intensive, even more so than electric lighting... ...Therefore, for every candle that is burned to replace electric lighting during Earth Hour, greenhouse gas emissions over the course of the one hour are increased by 9.6 g of carbon dioxide. If the light output from a 40 W light bulb was to be completely replaced by candles, this will lead to the emission of an extra 295 grams of carbon dioxide per over simply using the electric lights - if the equivalent of one thousand 40 W bulbs are replaced by candles, that’s an extra 295 kilograms of CO2 emitted. In places where a greater proportion of the electricity supply is generated by nuclear energy or hydroelectricity, this increase in greenhouse gas emissions is even larger. enochthered.wordpress.com