Not to worry, I'm leaving all my lights ON to keep the grid in balance. Gary
--- On Sat, 3/28/09, Robert Johnson <[email protected]> wrote: From: Robert Johnson <[email protected]> Subject: Earth Hour To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Date: Saturday, March 28, 2009, 4:19 AM Saturday, the entire earth is instructed to turn off its electrical loads. http://www.earthhour.org/home/ Is this an indication that to be safe we had better unplug everything we own because earth-wide, the load shedding means the utility voltage and frequency regulation will go haywire? I'm recalling a college roommate who worked at the Fernald nuclear refinery in Ohio (the load the northeast power grid was created for) when they lost one of eight transformers and utilities all over the east coast called to find out the source of the frequency change. Bob Johnson - ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher: <[email protected]> David Heald: <[email protected]> - This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to <[email protected]> All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc Graphics (in well-used formats), large files, etc. can be posted to that URL. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas <[email protected]> Mike Cantwell <[email protected]> For policy questions, send mail to: Jim Bacher <[email protected]> David Heald <[email protected]>
