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Originally Posted by Dace
horn ... switch off and unplug your tv at night ( / when it's not in use). There's a simple one for you.
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And that would do nothing moron. How do you think power is created? There is a line of uninformed thought that says if you switch things off for a little amount of time that will directly save energy and therefore reduce polution. While it could be argued that a tv on standby would create a little heat the energy created by powerstations will not change. You just do not turn powerstations off at night. We create a fairly level amount of energy all of the time in line with the max peak in energy demand, not equal to the current energy requirement. Therefore the only way to reduce the amount of polution caused is to convince powerstations that the max peak (such as world cup finals) will be low enough that they can decommission a powerstation.