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Kill-A-Watt anyone? I already have 2 which I use to monitor everything. Turns out my computers represent almost a negligible amount of my power consumption. Big surprise.]]>Feb 9th 2009 10:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 9th 2009 10:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Personally, they can track my every move and breath and it would only make me happier, but hopefully everyone (not just Ross Miller) understands that Google doesn't actually point and laugh that you seem to be cooking only once every three years and come up with stories about how you must eat McDonalds all day. It seems like the idea of "privacy" has come to not allowing impersonal objects such as computers know what you are doing, so everyone might want to stop using their trusty pen because it knows everything you've written, and if it decides to, your pen can suddenly turn all of that information over to the government at any point in time. NOT!]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/
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I honestly think Google would still be doing something like this, but Im sure the added incentive doesnt hurt. ]]>Feb 9th 2009 11:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 9th 2009 11:29PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 9th 2009 11:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 12:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 12:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 2:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.aclu.org/pizza/index.html?orgid=EA071904&MX=1414&H=1 ]]>Feb 10th 2009 8:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 9th 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 9th 2009 11:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 12:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http:///www.google.org/powermeter is up and running]]>Feb 9th 2009 11:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html]]>Feb 9th 2009 11:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.google.com/corporate/green/datacenters/measuring.html

Done]]>Feb 10th 2009 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Not Menlo Park. ]]>Feb 10th 2009 12:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 12:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/
For cars, the govt should mandate that all vehicles have an always-on mileage indicator that works like a taxi meter. When you fill up it should RF-link what you just spent for gas, and then have a $ meter on the dash that increments while you're driving. When a Chevy Suburban driver sees in real time that gunning it off the light just cost $0.50, maybe behavior will change.]]>Feb 10th 2009 1:41AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/" "I don't own a toaster and because I live by myself, I've always used my standard electric oven to toast bread. After seeing the power spikes from my sunday breakfasts, I did a little research on the power required to toast bread using a toaster compared to an electric oven and found that toasting bread in an oven uses 33 times as much energy as a typical toaster! With this savings, I realized that I would save money (not to mention time) by buying a toaster."
Don, Software Engineer "

o_O

Are you effing kidding me? This guy didn't know running an electric oven JUST TO TOAST BREAD uses more electricity (like, a lot more) than just using a damn toaster? Isn't that a bit like driving your car (full electric, let's say) on a clear sunny day from your front door to the mail box when you could just, you know, walk?]]>Feb 10th 2009 2:54AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 4:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 5:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/
Has anyone read the qutoes on the sites 'demo project' page? I'm a bit worried that someone needed to look at their power consumption to then work out they had left their oven on. And do we really need a software package to remind us we have left our lights on, surely using the computer to check that a light may be left on therefore negates any energy saving.]]>Feb 10th 2009 7:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 7:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 11:05AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/
If the utility companies install smart meters, they can charge different rates depending on demand and time of day. Right now it's just a total of what you use in one or two months, a smart meter means "we see you used x kwh during peak load and we will charge you xx more for those kwh then what you used at 6am".

Another issue is if you currently own an expensive solar array and have net meetering set up with the utility co. Usually you receive no bill or a very cheap one as you offset what you consume with what the array produces. Unless they modify your net meetering agreement to where during high demad periods your solar array earns xx more credit vs during times of low demand you will end up with an expensive bill. After spending 6 figures on a solar array, people will go crazy if they get screwed and have to start paying a bill again.

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Google PowerMeter, now in prototype, will receive information from utility smart meters and energy management devices and provide anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption right on her iGoogle homepage.

Are we all girls - anyone who signs up access to her home electricity consumption]]>Feb 10th 2009 8:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 9:24AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 8:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Electricity is pretty expensive in California, and if you have a large house and a family it is very common for you to have to pay nonlinear usage penalties. The incremental cost per Watt is very high, but so is the incentive to save power. That was precisely the motivation to closely monitor my power and to take actions to reduce my consumption. Calculating the savings is actually a bit involved, but the straight forward "what's the difference between the last year and each of the prior two years" nets out to significantly more than $3000 annually.
Wouldn't that motivate you also ?]]>Feb 10th 2009 9:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/09/nyt-googles-powermeter-to-let-users-track-electricity-usage/Feb 10th 2009 9:21AM