To switch off the power at 10pm tomorrow night

[Narwhalelife]

Just seen this on Instagram.

I’m at the stage anything has to be worth it. Il probably do it, it’s just as I go to bed anyway so why not.

I’m not suggesting it will solve the issue, but might piss a few people off?

Anyone else?

@Chely

Why on earth would you need the oven to tell you the time? I swith that off at the mains after every use.

Why? This makes no sense!

There’s a lot on this thread that makes little sense tbf

@ClareBlue

And some other regimes that ignore human rights and women's rights in particular. Best thing is for everyone to review their energy consumption and go out of their way to actively reduce it where they can. The figures for leaving everything on standby, plugged in and over boiling water, leaving ovens on, etc are a real eye opener. That's before you even look at more drastic action.

This. I'm more at the people who are endlessly washing and tumble drying clothes that have barely been worn or are heating their houses to tropical levels 24/7 so they can sit around in a t-shirt and think this is a normal thing to do and are only now thinking of changing their ways because the price has gone up.

Our oven clocks take seconds to set and its too confusing to have them showing the wrong time, too annoying to have them flashing away and too inconvenient to go under the back of the cabinet to turn them off after use, so I just changed the clock last Sunday.

What a load of social media bollocks ! Wait a moment, most of social media is bollocks anyway, why do so many people take this stuff as gospel ?

Switch off for Ukraine!

@ClareBlue

And some other regimes that ignore human rights and women's rights in particular. Best thing is for everyone to review their energy consumption and go out of their way to actively reduce it where they can. The figures for leaving everything on standby, plugged in and over boiling water, leaving ovens on, etc are a real eye opener. That's before you even look at more drastic action.

Does it make a difference if it's plugged in or just switched off at the wall? We're at the point where I don't know what we should cut further. I know we shouldn't let the house get too cold in winter. Heating was on at 15 for three hours a day until I turned it off in March, though if I turned it down further I don't know if I'd need to run it for longer to protect the house? 12 then electric throw?

Surely it would cause havoc in hospitals, especially ICU?

@junglejane66

Surely it would cause havoc in hospitals, especially ICU?

Presumably the staff in ICU are slightly less gullible and will not switch life support machines off for 10 mins because Facebook told them to

Hospitals have emergency generators that will keep the hospital running for an hour or two.

I used to work in an office on a hospital site and they tested it every month or so by turning all the power off and checking that essential services kept running on the generators.

Cant really see the point .10 minutes without power is less than a power cut! Wont be doing this!

I'm more concerned about my water usage so I won't be flushing my toilet for a couple of days. That'll show 'em! 💩

What on earth is the logic behind this? It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why would this have an impact on energy prices? Even if everyone did it, the energy companies would presumably shrug their shoulders, register that everyone is unhappy about the prices, which they presumably already knew, and carry on as they were, since there is no realistic prospect of everyone in the UK suddenly deciding to boycott electricity.

It's even worse than that thing that did the rounds a few weeks ago about ringing your church bells and turning your lights off to show Putin you'd rather sit in the dark than use his oil. Someone in our village came across it and randomly decided it was happening on a particular night, despite other people telling them that it had been circulating for several days. Someone else got very enthusiastic about it and at the appointed time, became very annoyed that everyone they could see from their window still had their lights on and that the church bells weren't ringing.

Half the people in the village had no clue this non-thing was happening, and we don't have church bells.

I won't be doing it. I've got to get up at 4.30 in the morning so I plan to be fast asleep by then.

@kungfupannda
and we don't have church bells

You could have shown some solidarity and had some installed. (we don't have any either but have just seen the memo...)

@TwoLeftSocksWithHoles

I know. I feel very guilty. If we'd had more than 2 hours notice, I'm sure we could have rigged something up. We could have tied some ladders together and sent a child up the tower with a ring doorbell or something.

There will be ppl on medical equipment at home who could be affected as well.

i bet the same ones who were banging pots and pans for the NHS two years ago are also the ones who will switch off tonight not caring whose equipment is impacted. They dont care about the NHS or ill ppl on medical equipment. Its all about virtue signalling on social media

It’s those threads that show how different the brits are to the French

All talk about how inconvenient it will be to reset the clock on the oven. And none about how people coming together can change things (and they can - see racism, suffragettes etc…)

It’s those threads that show how different the brits are to the French

yep, Martin Lewis is talking about civil unrest. Nope not going to happen

let's just say the revolution will not be organised by social media

@colosmbo

It’s those threads that show how different the brits are to the French

yep, Martin Lewis is talking about civil unrest. Nope not going to happen

Sadly true. The Brits will just huddle under quilts with empty bellies.

I suggest we work out a way to create power via peddling an exercise bike hooked up to an energy generator (a silent one!).
That way, each household member could pedal for an hour each morning and enjoy warmth and light for no monetary fee for the rest of the day.
busier/lazier families could hire people to do the peddling, so creating jobs.

Imagine the fitness potential! Win win!

Why aren't i running the country again?

I've just been banned from posting on some sort of eco group on Facebook for calling this out as fake news / useless bollocks....

I can assure you that Spain did not do this! Haha. Our electricity prices have gone through the roof, with varying tariffs throughout the day, peak prices during working hours and dinner time, of course... everyone I know only does their laundry at the weekends, and I now work in an office with the lights turned off...

You all have very small minds, unable to see the bigger picture. There are 29 million homes in the UK according to the government. Average energy usage for a medium home is 2900 kw per year (some homes will use less, some homes will use more). 2900/365=8kw on average per day per household. 8/24 = 0.33 kw. 0.33/60*10= 0.055 kw average usage in 10 minutes per household. 0.055kw 29,000,000 homes = 1,595,000 kw not used. 1,595,000 the new price cap per kw of 28.94p = 46,159,300 p / 100 = £461,539 in lost revenue per 10 minutes if every household in the UK did it. If only half did that would still be £230k+ per 10 minutes. A quarter would be £115k+ per 10 minutes. Enough to make any of the big 6 feel queezy.

Thats part 1 of the cost

Part 2 of the cost, if the uk baseload ( the amount of electricity being used by everyone) suddenly plummeted it would cause havoc for the grid. Transformers would explode with the sudden influx of electricity not being used, power cables would burst into flames, coal and nuclear power stations would have to be shut down, only to be turned back on later, (all with huge costs) . With the cost of repairs included I would but the total cost at well over £2m just for people turning their power off for 10 minutes.

Open your eyes people. The citizens of France and Spain know how to organise themselves and as such have fantastic social policy and employment rights. People in the UK are too individualistic (thatchers legacy) to make dramatic change.

Open your eyes people. The citizens of France and Spain know how to organise themselves

Please provide evidence that they did this.

@Pinchoftruth this was angle in posting, to generate debate in the idea rather than consider the actual act of me turning my leccy off for 10 minutes.

I work in the social science (sociology field) so I am really interested (although not a journalist posing on here) in how groups of people react to such things.

I am all for power of the people and strongly believe that there is power in numbers.

It is a shame that others fail to see the bigger picture other than ‘I won’t immediately benefit therefore it’s not worth my time’ this type of thing relies on the masses ‘giving it a go because doing nothing is worse’.

Of course some people (the old, vulnerable, on medical appliances) shouldn’t take part if there is a risk to them, but they are also the most likely to suffer with the rising costs.

And finally, just because it’s on social media doesn’t always mean it’s bull shit. I pretty much guarantee most people get their news, updates, stay connected via social media. The government rely on people thinking that social media is all lies.

If it was on the news would people do it?