How much electricity does this website take to work? What about the machines that made your clothes? What About Alton Towers? Or the floodlights at the City Ground?

We have to stop forgetting that the world goes on, and that we use energy. We have fun. We enjoy a life that is made better by entertainment.
Should we shut anything that isn't necessary?

As for the irony, I think it is appropriate for an energy company to support the initiative. It implies it is thinking about the future.

You killjoys just moan all the time. And you forget about the electricity and petrol cost of ferrying all your crusties to events to wave banners and shout.
All the demo's in the name of climate action actually cause huge extra waste of resources in thier impact.

I love skating in winter, me.

see below for the previous item on this

 https://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/nottinghamshire/2007/09/381942.html

"How much electricity does this website take to work? What about the machines that made your clothes? What About Alton Towers? Or the floodlights at the City Ground?"

All very different amounts I would think. What's your point? If it's that we shouldn't ever think about how much energy anything uses but just bury our heads in the sand and wait to fry then you're a very silly chicken indeed.

"We enjoy a life that is made better by entertainment. Should we shut anything that isn't necessary?"

Sometimes. A lot of the crap that the leisure industries pump out is not exactly life enhancing and no one will be able to enjoy anything once the climate's screwed. It is possible to have fun without using loads of fossil fuel you know.

"As for the irony, I think it is appropriate for an energy company to support the initiative. It implies it is thinking about the future."

Why? Looks to me like they're just thinking about an easy bit of marketing.

"You killjoys just moan all the time. And you forget about the electricity and petrol cost of ferrying all your crusties to events to wave banners and shout."

Yeah, that's right "we" are all killjoys and crusties and all we ever do is moan. I think you know that really we're getting massive kicks without fossil fuels and you're just jealous!

"I love skating in winter, me"

Oh well, never mind.

The point is you are not enjoying life without fosil fuels.
Even your daily bread is courtesy of power stations pumping leccy to industry.

You just think you are.

Wake up. We use energy. Like the dinosaurs, we may as well enjoy it before the cold snap comes back.

It will, you know. Global warming is part of life's rich cycle. In the future there will be more ice ages.

It's all about timing, and we are lucky. Am I skating on thin ice?

I'm off to switch all my lights on at home... help me "see" better.

(that bit was faceatious)

So the diddy ice rink cost$350,000 plus you have to dig deep in your pocket to afford to skate,wow, yeh all the people of nottingham are really getting joy out of this. How come we arent allowed to bring a sound system except for one day or rollerskate in slab square? its big enough.Is it cos they are free? The council could vcheaply have a bmx,rollerblade skateboarding circuit made far cheaper.
The new water features are good, but why the waste of millions on chinese stone instead of more trees, thats what nottinghams famous for.
Anyway maybe your right, profits for the rich, laws protecting nimbies^ fun for the few should come before anything else?

A reply to "Chicken" who labels people opposed to the ice rink as being "killjoys". I think it's nice to have an ice rink, however in case you haven't noticed, we already have Nottingham Ice Centre at the bottom of Hockley Hill.

I object to the fact that Eon have used loads of kilowatts powering their rink in Nottingham Market Square. They have the capitalist nerve to screw their customers with massive energy bills for daring to have some heating and hot water. Before you say "well choose another supplier", other energy companies also charge extortionate prices. The solution is re-nationalisation of our gas and electricity.

....And by the way, the energy used to switch on my PC and write this reply is a lot less than the energy used to keep an artificially frozen block of ice in the Market Square.