The main point:
The Eiffel Tower is to turn its famous night-time illuminations off for five minutes on Thursday to help draw attention to energy consumption and the environment on the eve of the release of a U.N. report on climate change.
My thoughts:
It's definitely quite a subtle point with an enormous meaning.
What do you think?
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You mean that it is definately quite a subtle point? I would definately be interested to know how much enegery it would save in that five minute period. Compare that amount of energy to the normal household's daily consumption.
Ok I figured it out. The eiffel tower uses 168 megawatts of power/day. The illuminations account for 9% which would be 15.12 megawatts/day. That comes out to be.63 megawatts/hr, making the total power saved in the 5 minute period 0.0525 megawatts. 0.0525 X 1000000 = 52,500 watts. The average home uses 24,384 watts per day. So turning the lights off for 5 minutes was equal to two average U.S. homes not using any power for a day. Crazy.
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