So all you happy and bouncing people keeping - "please switch off the lights at 8.30 pm today - Lets Save the Earth!" as your status message on Gtalk, Facebook and such 2500 more sites! Great!

I will keep this post simple without much technicalities, as i dont expect my readers to be so well read (padhe likhe), or else they wouldn't have been reading my super dooper intelligent blog in the first place. Electricity is being produced in some power plants, very far from the place you stay. They will keep on producing electricity no matter whatever hour the people are celebrating - Earth Hour, Moon Hour, Jupiter Hour, Whatever! For example, if the people of Delhi stop using electricity for one hour, surely some electricity will be saved, BUT this electricity will be passed on to the connected grids in Uttar Pradesh or Haryana, where there is shortage of electricity. The whole fucking point is, switching off lights will only save you 2Rs and it will not have any effect on the Earth! Because, the power plants are not being switched off.

And being a mechanical engineer, i can surely tell you how the power plants work. The cost of shutting down and restarting a power plant is much more than the electricity bill of thousands of homes for a month! Trivia fact: The train diesel engines, yeah which make chuk-chuk-chuk sound, waste 80 liters of diesel each time they are started! So nobody is going to shut down the power plants because some corporate has launched a publicity gimmick by writing "only 1400 gay tigers are left, no tigress - please help" or by saying "Save the Earth, Turn off the lights - WWF Initiative"

All these corporate social responsibilities (CSR) kind of advertising is on the rage these days, because we, the humans, are the most pathetic emotional fools currently living on the planet! And i rest my case!