International Law

Self-Restraint

By Karl-Friedrich Lenz

An article in the New York Times about Japanese self-restraint describes some of the reactions. Now is not a very good time to be running a Karaoke business. And people are turning off their gadgets.

My electrical toilet-seat warmer is unplugged for the next couple of months as well. I also have bought some LED lights running on AA batteries and often use those while turning off the main lights at home. It will take some time to find out what exactly makes sense and what is more of a symbolic action.

But there certainly is potential for some massive energy savings right now. Today’s electricity use as published by TEPCO runs at about 35 Gigawatt right now, compared to about 45 at the same date last year. That is quite an impressive reduction.

Full post as published by Lenz Blog on March 27, 2011 (boomark / email).