In response to Chris Horner’s post below, a reader (who happens to be a reliability coordinator for one of the Northeast’s transmission operators) suggests that we all “celebrate” Earth Hour tomorrow night.

We should encourage these nitwits to do exactly what they are planning, in fact we should participate too! If in fact we all did this, the result might be an enourmous load rejection at 8:30 PM EDT that might just destabilize the Eastern Interconnection and result in cascading outages and blackouts. That might prove a valuable lesson to those who are tempted to pontificate about their vast understanding and their simple solutions to problems with electric power generation and supply.