In a flap with a fuse
I have written in this blog of the various trials and tribulations of adapting to life in my own flat. ... have. When I phoned, they had asked what my meter reading was on the day I moved in. Not having taken ... from the one that was showing on the meter display, and hey presto, a backdated electricity meter reading [more...]
Date: 2008-01-21 13:33:00
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Build your own water quality tester
In response to our item about the commercial TDS (total dissolved solids) water testing tool, somebody sent us a link to this homemade meter, which tests for TDS, EC (electrical conductivity), PPM (parts per million). EC/TDS/PPM Meter On Limited Budget - Link Related [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 11:14:14
Blog: MAKE: Blog...
Sensus Signs Contract with Southern Company for FlexNet(TM) Enterprise-wide deal is one of the largest AMI contracts in history
RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- A groundbreaking agreement between Southern Company and Sensus Metering Systems lays the foundation to provide 4.3 million Southern Company customers with next generation electricity service offerings ... Metering Infrastructure) solution when they launch their new Smart Meter programs to customers across [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 13:20:11
Blog: China 3G Telecom Market...
Watt is Killing Us?
Januaruy 9th was a dooms day of sorts. It’s the day that I found out that my cooking all our meals on the woodstove and hanging the diapers to dry, ... our clothes, and never turned on the AC last year. We had a mild summer, thus we never watered the garden ... so there is just one electric meter) is probably doing the same thing when she has it on [more...]
Date: 2008-03-05 08:05:31
Blog: These Days in French Li...
Reluctantly springing forward
Twice a year, I envy my in-laws in Arizona, and that doesn’t count those subzero days when I’m splitting firewood in the snow while they may be ... . Since electricity consumption can be measured easily, this provided an ideal way to answer ... analyzed more than 7 million monthly meter readings. Residential electric usage increased [more...]
Date: 2008-03-07 23:08:08
Blog: GOAT - A High Country N...
The smart choice keeps getting smarter
electric meter ge 1 by Willy Ritch This week I was signing up a small business for 100% wind energy and as I was figuring out what the bottom line cost would be. The “standard offer” from the electric company (which includes electricity from natural gas and oil) goes for 8.7 cents/killowatt hour here in my state. To choose 100% wind [more...]
Date: 2008-03-02 14:58:51
Blog: SmartPower Blog...
Power Watching
One of the things we got during the Festering Season was an OWL Electricity Monitor as part of our “Good Life” way of life ... on these things, and that it involves putting the sensor around the live supply to the electricity meter, it was still easy to do, and took less than ten minutes all told. Calibration and set-up took [more...]
Date: 2008-01-02 08:00:08
Blog: D4D™- A drop of blood i...
Welcome to RV.net Blog!!!
Welcome to all you RVers to the brand new, exciting, RV.net Blog!!! ... , buy and use electrical meters including multimeters and clamp-on meters for measuring alternating [more...]
Date: 2008-01-09 02:28:57
Blog: RV.net Blog ...
Visualising energy use
Though by no means ubiquitous, household energy monitors have been around for some time ... in their home. Consumers begin by attaching to their electricity meter or fuse box a transmitter device, which ... displays not just energy usage, broadcast wirelessly by the consumer's energy meter, but also [more...]
Date: 2008-02-07 10:09:29
Blog: Springwise: new busines...
Permanent Link to the dream of 20 meters
the dream of 20 meters October 22nd, 2007 Not sure how many of you know this, but I’m a licensed HAM radio operator. I don’t regularly ragchew ( ... around in the layers of the atmosphere. That’s called HF propagation (high frequency). 20 meter long ... with technical diagrams, electrical nomenclature (ohms, volts, amps, inductance, capacitance [more...]
Date: 2007-10-22 19:05:00
Blog: radiopeter ...
Efergy Energy Saving Meter
What a week that was - we rehearsed Mendelssohn's Elijah intensively then gave performances at Chester Cathedral on Thursday ... electricity use monitor. You clamp the sensor around the cable that feeds your electricity meter (no wiring [more...]
Date: 2008-02-16 12:25:19
Blog: Bean Sprouts...
The secret origins of Scientololgy
Date: 2008-02-28 04:18:01
Blog: Damn Data | Cabinet of...
time marches on|Paradox of the Moment
In Zeno's dichotomy paradox, you run toward a wall. As you run, you halve the distance to the wall, then halve it again, and so on ... is also worthwhile for its final bit, a speculation about what life would really be like if electricity HAD become "too cheap to meter" as predicted by Atomic Energy Commission chief Lewis Strauss [more...]
Date: 2008-03-02 01:15:42
Blog: kisrael.com|quotes and ...
Makhijani on DallasNews
Two days ago on DallasNews , Arjun Makhijani from the anti-nuclear group Institute for Energy and Environmental Research (IEER) gave his usual commentary that nuclear can't cut it but renewables can . Having failed miserably to deliver on the 1950s promise that nuclear electricity would be "too cheap to meter," the industry [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 19:10:00
Blog: Nuclear Energy Institu...
More efficient food manufacturing: Solar cells
This is more of a is this possible, and is there any research going on in this area type of question ... is sugar cane. I don't know exactly how many calories or joules one square meter of sugar cane crop ... for - electricity, for example. The reason I am mentioning solar cells, is to compare the efficiency of life [more...]
Date: 2008-02-29 02:48:23
Blog: Bad Astronomy and Unive...
Cruise's Church Calls For The "Global Obliteration" Of Psychiatry In Shocking New Video
A new video has surfaced from what seems to be the busiest studio in this strike ravaged town: The Church Of Scientology ... ." Sorry to burst your bubble, but the "magical LRH technology" a.k.a. the E-meter, which is used during ... measures the electrical resistance of the skin, which varies depending on how much sweat the body [more...]
Date: 2008-02-08 21:31:48
Blog: daily mantra - welcome!...
The Alternate Energy Scam.
Got into a bit of a discussion with Ferrand which was in danger of hi-jacking Christina Osborne's gracious blog 'Valentine for Engineers, ... on alternate power sources. Hydro-electric: produces about 0.012 watts per square meter of land ... just the current 19 plants would therefore require 19 x 2500 = 47, 500 square KM. This is about 20 [more...]
Date: 2008-02-15 13:50:31
Blog: My Telegraph...
Detail People and Bottom Line People: Differing Approaches to Carbon Footprint Dieting
I met a few Global Warming Deniers recently, but with that exception, most people I know have gotten the memo: ... one yesterday. They attached a watt meter thingy on the electrical panel, and when they plugged in the capacitor [more...]
Date: 2008-02-20 22:21:59
Blog: Money Changes Things...
Calling for a Marshall Plan, not a Manhattan Project
Electricity too cheap to meter. For many renewable energy advocates, that is the holy grail… new technology which will not only solve the problem of carbon emissions, but be so transformative [more...]
Date: 2008-03-06 20:58:29
Blog: Alternative Energy Stoc...
Sintex's biogas digester ingests crap, emits energy
Filed under: Misc. GadgetsSintex Industries' aptly-dubbed biogas digester is most certainly not the first of its kind, ... electricity." Reportedly, a one-cubic-meter digester would sell for around $425, but could pay for itself [more...]
Date: 2008-02-29 11:27:00
Blog: Engadget...
good reading: Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business
At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps ... it's digital technologies, not electricity, that have become too cheap to meter. It took decades to shake [more...]
Date: 2008-03-02 19:38:25
Blog: Roberdan...
Bend a knee (again) to technology!
[ Biomechanical Energy Harvester: In the very near future, ... of a measly 80 milliwatts of electricity (like a square meter of the fabric would produce), this device [more...]
Date: 2008-02-23 17:23:17
Blog: Science Buzz | Dig deep...
It's Not Easy Being Consistent.
The merits of consistency in marketing/advertising tone have been debated ad nauseam and, for the record, ... that a customer who buys both gas and electricity from them doesn't receive two lots of meter ... , this ensures they receive their payment or meter reading slip and that's fine with me, but I'm not sure [more...]
Date: 2008-03-05 11:47:35
Blog: Make Marketing History...
Is daylight-saving time a complete waste of energy?
By Paul Michael This weekend the clocks “spring forward.” I’m not a huge fan of DST ... of DST. Over the course of three years, a staggering seven million monthly meter readings were taken ... an additional $8.6 million in electricity. And in this day and age, can we afford to be throwing away [more...]
Date: 2008-03-07 20:52:12
Blog: Wise Bread | Personal F...
DST Doesn’t Save Energy
Back when Congress was debating shifting the start and end of DST, ... way to see how the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings ... Indiana households an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced [more...]
Date: 2008-02-29 11:10:07
Blog: Mike The Actuary’s Musi...
Mysterious Intracellular Energy
Scientists from the University of Michigan, using novel nanoparticles, ... , and found electric fields as high as 15 million volts per meter, a surprisingly high potential drop ... , the voltage-sensitive dyes emit a mixture of red and green light; the exact frequency of light emitted [more...]
Date: 2007-12-10 18:12:12
Blog: Medgadget.com -- Intern...
It ain't what you don't know, its what you know that ain't so...
...one of my favorite Mark Twain aphorisms, that gets proved correct once again ... energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp., covering nearly ... million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting in afternoons during [more...]
Date: 2008-03-04 17:58:21
Blog: UNCoRRELATED...
Body Heat…and Power
Concerns about climate change and greenhouse gas emissions are instilling a new dynamism –and fueling something of a ... temperature differentials to produce low voltage electrical currents. Temperature differences ... be on the body, on radiators to meter the heating costs, when monitoring the cooling chain during the transport [more...]
Date: 2008-03-03 07:11:52
Blog: Triple Pundit - An 'int...
Whoops! Maybe Daylight Savings Time Wastes Energy!
The conventional wisdom on daylight savings time has always been that it's a way to save energy by cutting down on the amount of lighting used at ... has its limitations. Researchers looked at the energy use patterns, taken straight from seven million monthly meter ... time after years of opting out. The study found that electricity use increased by [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 16:43:33
Blog: X Curmudgeon...
Daylight savings: study concludes it doesn't save on energy costs
Justin Lahart of the Wall Street Journal reports today on a study done by University of California - Santa Barbara ... affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp ... an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting in afternoons [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 13:40:53
Blog: Fort Wayne Observed...
Daylight wastings
By Joseph Romm I have been asked this question about daylight saving time many times ... the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy ... households an additional $8.6 million in electricity bills. They conclude that the reduced cost of lighting [more...]
Date: 2008-02-29 23:47:18
Blog: Gristmill: The environm...
Control Engineering 2007 Engineers’ Choice Awards
The industrial automation space is one of constant change ... Instrumentation & Control Components Components & connectors Fluke 771 Milliamp Process Clamp Meter ... & Drives Motors Adjustable Speed Brushless BMC & BSM - Baldor Electric Motion Control Allen [more...]
Date: 2008-02-11 15:55:07
Blog: Ary's Blog...
Confused but not dazed...
Ok, before the gripes begin, I did some extensive searches here and on the web before I even thought of asking some of the questions I'm about to ask. Please bear with me, I don't even own a Prius yet! I'm still in the looking-test drive mode ... . Car electronics and electrical systems are not new to me. I can use a meg meter and other testing [more...]
Date: 2008-03-06 00:17:01
Blog: Toyota Prius Online Com...
Biogas Digester, Waste = Fuel
Syntex Biodigester Sintex Industries, a plastics and textiles manufacturer in India, ... , chicken waste or kitchen garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity ... into a storage canister. From Forbes Magazine: A one-cubic-meter digester, primed with cow dung [more...]
Date: 2008-03-04 04:23:39
Blog: Sustainable Design Upda...
Electricity Generating Fabric
At Georgia Tech researchers have developed material based on nano technology that harvests electricity from the fabric's bristles and could ... , Wang estimates that a square meter of fabric made from the special fibers could theoretically ... - washing it. Zinc oxide is sensitive to moisture, so in real shirts or jackets, the nanowires would [more...]
Date: 2008-02-14 06:07:22
Blog: Medgadget.com -- Intern...
Microfiber Generates Electricity
Researchers have developed a way to produce fabric that generates electricity. "Our estimates show we can have up to 80 milliwatts per square meter of this fabric. This is enough to power a little iPod or charge a cell phone battery," he said. Read More [more...]
Date: 2008-02-13 20:19:51
Blog: Technocrat...
D. Dexter
Date: 2008-02-29 12:15:21
Blog: The Fast Life - get a n...
IBM Invention: Super Fast Green Optical Network Technology With Speeds Upto 8Tb/s
IBM Researchers have developed a breakthrough prototype “Green Optical Link” technology which could be considered as the future of bandwidth ... 100 meter long link, the power consumed by the optical technology is 100 times less than today’s electrical interconnects, and offers a power savings of 10 times over current commercial optical modules [more...]
Date: 2008-03-01 12:06:47
Blog: TECHLIVEZ.COM Computers...
Civic graffiti popping up all over!
Wow! Tombo has unearthed (almost literally) two sites of fabulous graffiti in our fair city ... just has to define the gas lines, seeing as how it leads right up to a meter. The COP (City ... graffiti. Here are the older signs from the scene above. Red for electricity, fading orange [more...]
Date: 2008-03-02 04:40:27
Blog: Walking Prescott...
Daylight Savings Wastes Money
From the Wall Street Journal: ---------------- For decades, conventional wisdom has held that daylight-saving time, which begins March 9, ... -saving time across Indiana found: • Residential electricity usage increased between ... how the time shift affects energy use. Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke [more...]
Date: 2008-02-28 05:59:29
Blog: The Western Right...
Plurion and Dr Know
. The Undercover Reporter Addresses "Dr Know" on Plurion Dear Tony, On reflection, ... the 1 sq. meter Plurion battery back in 2001/2002 were presumably the authors of the paper titled ... were buying into the electricity company that had developed it. The putative reasons [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 19:06:40
Blog: Sustainable Energy, Woo...
Your new permanent gadget?
The Greener Gadgets Conference suggested a gadget concept that is 'tattooed' under your skin and runs on blood by turning glucose and oxygen into electricity. I'm not sure I like the permanence of this system unless, perhaps, it is a glucose meter. Details here [more...]
Date: 2008-03-04 13:01:17
Blog: Diabetologica...
Spring Forward Wastes Energy
Don't forget to spring your clocks forward tonight. Daylight Saving Time begins at 2:00 a.m., March 9, 2008. ... :Using more than seven million monthly meter readings from Duke Energy Corp., covering nearly ... to daylight-saving time each year consumed more energy: • Residential electricity usage increased between [more...]
Date: 2008-03-08 13:56:50
Blog: CALIFORNIA YANKEE...
Electric Bill Update: Energy Vampires & Power Hijacks?
Seeking an answer to my high electric bill, I turned to fellow bloggers, who offered an assortment of suggestions and several plausible conspiracies ... audit that includes checking the meter. I have requested an onsite audit, a service available ... . Last summer, Bennett replaced the 14-year-old AC unit in her home with an upgraded system [more...]
Date: 2008-02-11 14:45:54
Blog: The Frugal Duchess...
Waste not, want not
Forbes has an article on Indian company Sintex and its efforts to "solve India's energy and sanitation problems in one stroke" ... garbage into fuel that can be used for cooking or generating electricity, simultaneously addressing two ... . But instead of being vented into the air, they are piped into a storage canister. A one-cubic-meter [more...]
Date: 2008-03-03 12:58:18
Blog: Peak Energy...
Shaving
Shaving February 26th, 2008 Way back when I was first thinking about starting a blog ( ... electricity be worse for the environment than something you power yourself? After thinking ... I see it breaking down. Electricity: The electric razor obviously has a disadvantage here [more...]
Date: 2008-02-26 20:00:05
Blog: 8 weeks of clean living...
I Choose the Songs (Idol 7 Round of 20)
I was singing in the bathroom before getting ready for work this morning when my wife stopped me. “No no Dear! You can’t go to the office singing that.” “Singing what?” “Whatever that is, it doesn’t suit you. It’s all wrong for your voice. You’re more jazzy but soulful [more...]
Date: 2008-02-29 21:08:03
Blog: Chancelucky...
How to Check Electricity and Energy Use
Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS Feed Do you know how much energy each of my 30″ monitors takes up? ... plug any device into Watt’s Up and the meter instantaneously displays the wattage being used, as well ... you can receive with this: Cost, in dollars and cents Frequency Volt-Amps Average monthly cost Power [more...]
Date: 2008-01-24 04:58:14
Blog: Chris Pirillo...
E-Day
Remember how the BBC cancelled Planet Relief? Well, they didn't cancel it all the way. The twenty-four hours from six this evening are E-Day ... it here and supposedly environmental charities, electricity companies and religious leaders ... ' prediction of electricity use (which has to be pretty accurate or we get blackouts) and calculate [more...]
Date: 2008-02-27 22:25:53
Blog: CentreRight...
if you can measure it - you begin to understand it
what a pleasant surprise. several readers emailed and asked about test-equipment needed to service and diagnose electrical problems. I had just purchased a new Fluke 336A clamp-on ammeter, but thought it was too expensive ... to dissuade anyone from buying their clamp-on meter offering, which was an old Fluke design [more...]
Date: 2008-02-13 14:24:07
Blog: doublereef...
