(06/04/2010 06:33 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  

(06/04/2010 06:05 PM)Kana Wrote:  

(06/04/2010 03:12 PM)Slushba132 Wrote:  everyone all over the world doesn't use electricity for one hour
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Demand for power goes down
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The power company loses billions of dollars in unsupplied/unpayed for power

no they don't. they simply lower the machine's capacity, if there's any excess power, they simply store it somewhere and continue to lower the capacity after the earth hour.


people are smarter than you, you know.

something about the way power companies work they don't store any electricity at all I'm pretty sure

I'm pretty sure they do store it.
And it's not like a problem that suddenly arises like a plant failure. Instead they know this is happening every year and they know that approximately this many people will shut off their lights (but many still will be using their televisions and computers) so they know about how much less power they need to be giving out and adjust accordingly.