jamie rishaw wrote:

Ninjas,

I'm compiling some data re this year's "Earth Hour"[1] .

For those not in the know, or those that dismissed it, "Earth Hour" is something the World Wildlife Fund cooked up, suggesting that the world "turn off" all non-essential electrical devices, to demonstrate some global-warming hypothesis.

I'm looking for data - either compiled or raw - of activity between 8:30 (20:30) and 9:30 (21:30) "local" time. Power usage (and comparisons against previous weeks if available) and probably easier to push out - bandwidth info (and, again, comparisons against previous 2030-2130-saturday-night data).

All data will be anonymized. Sources, if you send from $work email, will not be included in any summarizations.

I think this will turn out to be some rather interesting info. I'll post findings to nanog, of course, or at least, appropriate urls and such.

I say we all run "off the grid" on generator power for earth hour. (At least that's what I'm saying because it was coincidentally my regular automatic exercise time with load transfer.) ~Seth