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How does your energy use measure up?

01.27.2009

Submitted by tmeronek on Tue, 01/27/2009 - 2:22am.
The Bite:
Use a home energy reader as your yardstick. These gadgets make gauging your pad's power - down to the last night-light - easier than converting Fahrenheit to Celsius (and when you know how much you're using, you're way more likely to conserve).
The Benefits: 
  • Saving your family joules. Once you use one of these gizmos to find out just how much energy your plasma TV's sucking, we're pretty sure you'll start remembering to unplug it at night.
  • Averting many kilograms of CO2. Power plants create more air pollution than any other source, including automobiles.
Personally Speaking: 
Our editorial team liked The Energy Detective so much that we gave it one of our first-ever Best In Green (B.I.G.) Awards.
Wanna Try: 
  • The Energy Detective - plug-in device that gives you info on how much power (and associated cash for energy bills) you're using throughout your house ($145).
  • DIY Kyoto Wattson - a UK design collective created this sleek-looking, EU-only gadget that measures your energy and hooks you into a network, so you can compare your power use with other Wattson owners (£98/$144).
  • Kill A Watt - see how much energy your individual appliances are using ($24).
Dolph Rodenberg

Cocktail Fact

Nice try, guys: Presidents Ford, Reagan, and Bush (the first) all mandated national adoption of the metric system.

Bang For The Bite

All these gizmos do is determine your energy usage - but if you know how much you're using, you can better decide when and where to conserve.

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shirley  on April 21, 2009 at 09:02 AM 1
Hi, Lately you had a listing of places where one could rent gizmo's for measuring the amount of electircity used by differnt appliances, etc. I searched but cannot find this list. Can you send it to me please, or point me in the right direction so I can find it again?
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