lights out queenslanders

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Originally Posted by WhiteD3

Yep, we really saved the planet last night (no sarcasm intended). I wonder if the dogooders understand that turning off the lights for an hour does nothing.

Those coal burning generators are still running, making electricity just in case it's needed as there's no way to store it.

for a prolonged low they spool them down but for a short sudden drop they dump on a big ass dummy load. Very cool to see how its all managed. In effect all everyone turning their lights off achieved was raising the temperature of a biiiig bucket of water. If however they turned them all off for say a week, that might result in one or 2 of the multitude of generators being spooled down early for some scheduled maintenance.

For a real difference they should have done it in the middle of summer and had everyone turn their aircons off for a month.