http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 19th 2009 11:56PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
Also, when you track power usage, you can control it to a large degree. If you can compare, say, two coffee makes, one of them might be cheaper to operate over the other. You can apply this to other appliances as well.]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
And why there is Ultraviolet lamps and hydroponic plant supplies in the bedrooms.]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
Indeed, that sort of thing is already in use in many places in america, my power company records my usage daily and sends it out over the cellular network (also uses powerline networking in some cases). I can then bring up my daily usage online. It's not realtime, but it's better than nothing at all and they have eliminated the need for walking meter readers.]]>Jan 20th 2009 1:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/I am curious why is your "friend" using four time as mush as other people
@sirus
I don't know how they measure my electric but I have two separate rate for my usage, one for peak and off peak I am sure they somehow measure my usage more than once a day or they are just pulling numbers out of their asses]]>Jan 20th 2009 1:37AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
And why there is Ultraviolet lamps and hydroponic plant supplies in the bedrooms."

Your "friend" should stop using so much of his own "product" if he is so out of it he didn't notice the wires and the iobridge the FEDS mounted on his breaker panel.]]>Jan 20th 2009 5:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 9:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 9:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 10:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 1:26PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
yes usage scheduling could be possible ... this has a better chance of working than waiting fro the utilities to ever do anything through the power lines.

your local pole transformer could ask low priority devices to wait for a while to run using signaling over the power lines and no internet, but like that'll ever happen...]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:29AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
here here brother. aint nothing like standing still with ur head getting drenched in water for about 20mins :D]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 1:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 1:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
DAMN an hour long!!! thats way to long should top out at half an hour MAX, but thats just from me who used to take 25 min showers. think how much water u waste...]]>Jan 20th 2009 3:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
You guys seriously need to think about how much water you are just WASTING. Here is the math:

A 'low flo' shower head allows avg. 2.5gpm. An old shower head avg 5gpm.

For the sake of the arguement, not all homes are fitting with Lo flo, and not all are fitting with the old style.

Lets take and average shower head of 3gpm.
Pop of USA (est 7/2008) 300million.
Assuming each person takes 1 shower per day.
Again for the sake of the exercise, lets assume 20% of the population takes a 30min shower.

3gpm x 30min x 20% of 300million = 6'750'000'000gall. (6.75trillion gall)

To put this in perspective, the Hoover Dam has a storage capacity of approx. 9.2 trillion gall...

Therefore, if 30min showers were banned, and everyone took 10min showers, that means there would be a saving of 4.5trillion gall (approx. half of the Hoover Dam) PER DAY. Then multiply this for all the countries around the world,

So, for all who take water for granted, and do not even think for 1sec about how much water you waste, where do you think all this water comes from? Imagine the infrastructure such as pipelines, water treatment plants, chemicals, etc etc needed to have in place just so that you can enjoy a 30min shower.

STOP WASTING WATER!!!!!!!!!!

Disclaimer: I am just an average Joe Plumber, my showers take about 9mins. I am a not a Greenpeace activist, nor am I rabid environmentalist, just a concerned individual.

Cheers,

BigBloke


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I pay for it. Bite me. The Earth recycles water quite efficiently. I studied Ecology in High school as part of a special project of wetland studies but it extended into Geological filtering. I grew up with well water and a rain water cistern. Maybe California has a problem with it, but in my neck of the woods, water is quite plentiful.]]>Jan 20th 2009 9:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 1:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
a short shower with a high flow head will cause the heater just as much work as a longer shower with a lower flow head for example... both could result in 18 minutes of heating time.]]>Jan 20th 2009 12:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:36AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 3:00AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
Knowing consumption minute by minute and shifting load to cheaper times can knock down a hefty portion of your bill.]]>Jan 20th 2009 1:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 1:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 2:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
http://offog.org/code/electricity.html

Alex]]>Jan 20th 2009 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 3:38AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.reuk.co.uk/Plugwise-Energy-Monitoring-and-Saving.htm

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http://www.pachube.com/search?query=electricity
http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1236
http://www.pachube.com/feeds/1311
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http://www.theenergydetective.com

@Rik: Not everyone lives in an area with abundant natural gas. Some people even use electric stoves and heat pumps. Wrap that one around your noggin.]]>Jan 20th 2009 8:04AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
If this was made for a class project and he's a graduate student, I really hope for his sake that there's more to it than just that, I don't know any professor that would accept something this simple as a graduate project.]]>Jan 20th 2009 8:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
D.]]>Jan 20th 2009 8:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/Jan 20th 2009 9:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/19/student-charts-electrical-usage-in-real-time-much-to-big-brothe/
Oh, and since I am single and at work most of the time, I use a timer on my water heater. It saves a lot!]]>Jan 20th 2009 9:31AM