Yale Environment 360: Google Develops Meter<br />To Closely Track Home Power Usage.
Google is developing a “PowerMeter” that will allow homeowners and businesses to closely track electricity usage of appliances, heaters, and other devices on their computers. The PowerMeter represents the search engine giant’s entry into the world of smart meter technology, which enables consumers to reduce energy consumption by instantaneously monitoring the sources of power consumption in their homes and offices…..
Google is developing a “PowerMeter” that will allow homeowners and businesses to closely track electricity usage of appliances, heaters, and other devices on their computers. The PowerMeter represents the search engine giant’s entry into the world of smart meter technology, which enables consumers to reduce energy consumption by instantaneously monitoring the sources of power consumption in their homes and offices…..
I think enabling people to associate household activities with spikes in power consumption is a leap forward in behaviour modification, and changes in consumer choices. Watching the slow burn of lights in an unoccupied room would get a lot of people to the 'off' switch.
“It seems obvious to me that if you give (energy) information to end users they behave smartly.”
Yes.
iBiome 
I’d hear Obama urging folks during speeches to unplug their cell phone chargers to help save energy, though I didn’t really understand much about it. Then, “the real” Erin Brockovich was on The Hour a few weeks back and suggested that folks should turn their tv’s off by hand, ie. not using their remote, as another small way to save energy. Wellsir, as Dr. iBiome has long known, a sexy woman usually always leads the hornedog into a call for action before a young, charismatic politician (note I said “usually”). So I researched the topic and it seems that there is indeed a whole movement surrounding the idea of “standby power” and little things consumers can do to help reduce energy use from the myriad of appliances in our homes and offices… http://www.iea.org/Textbase/subjectqueries/standby.asp
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sex sells, as ever.
My better half has long pointed out that adapters always suck power whether or not the phone or whatnots are actually connected. Now I am conscious of the useless energy burn and can’t leave a room without unplugging them.
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