Re: Earth Hour

On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:20:18 +1100, "dechucka"
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"Geoff" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 15:50:38 +1100, "dechucka"
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"Geoff" <geoff@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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On Sun, 30 Mar 2008 15:26:29 -0700 (PDT), JOF <jofrancis@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

We're into steel studs up here now although the trusses are generally
still wood.

Ah! Steel frames. You mean iron and carbon alloyed with some manganese
and copper cooked in electric blast furnaces with oxygen and coke (not
the soda) made from coal. It only takes about 440 kWh per ton, (not
counting the power it took to produce the coke) to produce steel so
I'm sure there's a big savings there. Not to worry though, coke is
made from low-sulfur coal and we export a lot of that. Coke is also
produced in New South Wales, Australia. --- Hey! Wasn't that one of
the cities in the EH contingent last night? I bet it was. Wow.

NSW is a State of the Commonwealth of Australia, Capital city Sydney. NSW
is
famous for coal fired power stations, dirty coal and the building of an
unneeded desalination plant that is expensive in power and money as they
don't want to recycle water


Thanks for the correction! That's right, Sidney, NSW, Australia. The
city with the sometimes-dark Opera House and the Harbor Bridge. Origin
of Earth Hour.


with a "y' please. Was Sydney really the originator of earth hour?


Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_hour

A product of WWFA, and the Sydney Morning Herald.
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