{"id":1634,"date":"2008-01-12T23:13:06","date_gmt":"2008-01-13T07:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lee.org\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/12\/kill-a-watt\/"},"modified":"2008-01-16T08:56:36","modified_gmt":"2008-01-16T16:56:36","slug":"kill-a-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2008\/01\/12\/kill-a-watt\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill a Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed Barry&#8217;s Kill a Watt. It&#8217;s a gizmo that tells you how many watts and kilowatt*hours your appliances are using. I found out a couple interesting tidbits.<\/p>\n<p>Electricity costs me $0.11 per kilowatt. In my small apartment, I never get out of the first tier of electric rates, which peak out at $0.36 per kilowatt.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Baking 1 loaf of bread in my Breadman Ultimate automatic bread maker = 0.29 kilowatt*hrs = $0.03.  When the electric bread maker oven is heating (maybe 1\/2 the time the bread is in the bake cycle) running it uses 387 watts.<\/li>\n<li>Running the gas oven uses a <strong>constant<\/strong> 340 watts to keep the igniter hot. That&#8217;s to say using my <strong>GAS<\/strong> oven uses more <strong>ELECTRICITY <\/strong>than my <strong>ELECTRIC <\/strong>oven!<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My computer running at idle = 122 watts.<\/li>\n<li>My computer running at &#8220;full tilt&#8221; working on SETI@Home = 192 watts. So running SETI@Home is like leaving a 70 watt lightbulb on all the time in addition to running my computer. If I left it on 24&#215;7, that&#8217;d be a $67 donation to SETI@Home each year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Charlotte&#8217;s laptop= variable between 18 and 50 watts<\/li>\n<li>When Charlotte&#8217;s laptop is turned off, the power supply uses &lt;1 watt.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>My main LCD monitor running with mostly black on the screen = 33 watts.<\/li>\n<li>My main LCD monitor running with mostly white on the screen = 33 watts.<\/li>\n<li>Charlotte&#8217;s laptop uses 6 watts less when the screen is dark than when it&#8217;s bright.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>All of my gizmos turned &#8220;off&#8221; use 29 watts. Scanner=12, router=10, modem=2, answering machine=5, monitor1&lt;1, monitor2&lt;1, computer&lt;1, clock radio&lt;1. That&#8217;s $28 per year.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li>Refrigerator=87 watts when running<\/li>\n<li>Catching it? Priceless.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I borrowed Barry&#8217;s Kill a Watt. It&#8217;s a gizmo that tells you how many watts and kilowatt*hours your appliances are using. I found out a couple interesting tidbits. Electricity costs me $0.11 per kilowatt. In my small apartment, I never get out of the first tier of electric rates, which peak out at $0.36 per [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}