toten bankes

Toten Bankes

By David Verveer

The expression, "Es vet hilfen vee a toten bankes." This means something like, "It helps as much as cupping-glasses help a corpse." ... is the suitable description of switching off the lights in Israel last week, which was an act based on ignorance, stupidity and manipulation.

Israel marks Earth Hour
Israel marked Earth Hour Thursday evening, with Tel Aviv leading the way and switching off the lights first, at 8 pm. The electric company reported a major decrease in demand for electricity in the city, equal to 200000 light bulbs being turned off.

I don't know if somebody explained to the organizers of this grand feast of ignorance, that electricity, as such, can not be stored, the generators continued to work, but didn't work at their optimal efficiency, as supply was not fully utilized, and inefficient operation of the generators (power plant) meant waste of energy. In order to get a dramatic exhibition of this switch-off, the municipality building of Tel; Aviv ordered to switch on all office lights, from 6 to 8 o' clock in the evening, most workers generally switch off their office lights on termination of their work at 6, but on this special night, 2 hours of electricity was wasted in order to enable the mayor to switch off dramatically at 8 o'clock the lights in the municipality building. According my calculations 2 hours were wasted in order to earn one hour symbolic switch off, which is not only stupid but also a hoax.

Please explain to me what those bright citizens, who sat for an hour with candle light, were supporting, a solution to the water crisis? Of course not, that crisis, much more urgent than global warming, is solved by incredible stupid TV messages, urging to save the Kinereth, suggesting that showering only 4 minutes, will solve the problem, while everybody knows or should know, that the only solution to the water crisis is private financed desalination plants, (B.O.T.) which would not cost the Government any money, and will solve our shortage for ever, without damage to the environment.

Global warming (not yet scientifically proven) if it really occurs, and is not part of the climatically pendulum, switching from cold extreme to hot extreme in the last million earthly years, is certainly not caused by humans, because they use fossil energy, and CO2 (a so called green house gas) is an essential product provided by nature, which enables plants to grow, there is no evidence that this beneficial gas causes global warming, even not with videos of showing swimming ice bears.

The people who switched off the lights assisted political groups who try to promote dubious targets, both politically and commercially. These groups, which organize funding for research on environmental issues with pre-proclaimed conclusions, in order to provide pressure on the Government, to make (or block) decisions in production of energy related issues, such as new power stations, coal and gas and fuel imports, desalination plants, and so on.