I read that the bill to move daylight savings three weeks earlier in the Spring was to give us more daylight and conserve energy...perhaps I am not thinking about this as indepth as I should, but I fail to see how an extra hour three weeks earlier than usual will save energy.
Someone, please enlighten me...thanks.
2007-03-09 07:29:32 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Environment
Tony & Labgrrrrl - the points you make are the exact ones (and only ones) I thought of, too. Thanks!
2007-03-09 10:02:24 · update #1
the idea is that we will use daylight, not lights, in our houses.
The problem is that studies show, time and time again, that extra daylight just makes us shop.
2007-03-09 07:33:52 · answer #1 · answered by LabGrrl 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The amount of energy used in the morning because it will still be dark for an hour (which will be erased in a few weeks as the sun comes up earlier and earlier) will be less than the amount of energy that will be saved in the evening when people are out and about.
I've seen some stupid rationalizations against extending DST but the one about retailers and golf courses pushing this has to be the dumbest one I've ever heard (if the source is NPR, I'm not surprised). Ddi we ever think that there are people out there that actually like sunlight, and would like to have when we can use it, as opposed to when we're sleeping? If people are out and moving, is that a bad thing, especially considering we always here about how fat we are and we need to get out and exercize?
Even were there no energy savings, DST is a great idea, and anything that extends a great idea is even greater.
2007-03-11 10:57:07 · answer #2 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
basically it is a cheap way- it may conserve a couple million, but that is nothing in energy usage. The reason that it is supposed to save energy is that there will be more hours of daylight at night, and therefore people will use less lamps. Though I do not think they take school kids into consideration- they have to get up early as well, so they will just use the lights in the morning instead of at night.
2007-03-09 07:34:39 · answer #3 · answered by D 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually, Danielle has it backwards. There will be more daylight in the afternoon - and it is presumed that more people will still be asleep for the extra hour of darkness in the morning. The sun will now rise at say, 6, instead of 5 (depends on where you are), and set at say, 8, instead of 7.
Same amount of actual daylight - just supposedly more usable daylight.
2007-03-09 07:38:21 · answer #4 · answered by kentata 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It doesn't. That is a red herring that is tossed out to distract us from the real reason. If you want to know the real reason behind such legislation, look at who is supporting it. In this case, it is retailers and places like golf courses. With people getting off work and having an extra hour of daylight they are more likely to go shopping or go play a round of golf than they would be if there were not as much daylight time left.
2007-03-09 07:37:30 · answer #5 · answered by dogsafire 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
It doesn't conserve energy. Back in the 70's when we first instituted Ben Franklin's idea the biggest proponents were retail outlets: with extra daylight in the evenings there would be extra shopping after work. This time the biggest gainers are the golf courses and retail outlets. Figure that one out.
2007-03-09 12:49:55 · answer #6 · answered by Amphibolite 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
sunlight hours reductions became created for the duration of WWII so more suitable potential may be conserved. After the conflict we of route only kept it round. I do beleive that it became a reliable theory for the time because there became this kind of nationwide disaster occurring besides the undeniable fact that the effectriveness right this moment is questionable. I stay in AZ inspite of the truth that so i dont favor to agonize about it!
2016-12-05 11:31:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The idea is to make you get up earlier and go to bed earlier which is supposed to prevent you from sleeping while it is light and make you sleep when it is dark so you don't turn on the lights so much. So it doesn't give you more hours of light, it just makes you get up early.
2007-03-09 11:10:05 · answer #8 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i guess they figure with the sun setting at a later time, it will cause us to turn our lights on at a later time too? I dont get it either???
2007-03-09 07:33:52 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
no, i cannot see any energy saving. because lighting is controlled by light sensors not by govt laws. heating and cooling controlled by temperature sensors.
2007-03-09 09:07:35 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋