ENERGY: SOLAR: Tools for Doing Your Own Energy Audit
David P. Dillard
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ENERGY: SOLAR:
Tools for Doing Your Own Energy Audit
Tools for Doing Your Own Energy Audit
By George Musser
Jan 3, 2010 07:10 PM
in Energy & Sustainability
Scientific American
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=
tools-for-doing-your-own-energy-aud-2010-01-03>
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Fighting energy waste is a never-ending battle. In an earlier post, I
mentioned The Energy Detective, which measures the total electricity
consumption of your house. To track down specific power hogs, a portable
meter such as Kill-a-Watt is invaluable. With it, I recently went around
the house checking how much power our electronic appliances and adaptors
consumed in standby mode. Bracing myself for a torrent of waste, I was
pleasantly surprised that most devices drew less than 1 watt.
The suckiest vampire proved to be the Wii (10 watts in standby mode), so
we're more diligent now about powering it down. A handheld-vacuum charger
drew 3 watts even when the battery was full-up, so now I make sure to
unplug it between chargings. A USB hub and UPS each drew 2 watts, and we
didn't really need either, so we removed them. It's not much, but it adds
up, and it's easy to fix.
With an Amazon gift certificate my mom gave me for Christmas, I got
another handy tool: a Black & Decker Thermal Leak Detector. An affordable
version of the multi-thousand-dollar thermal imagers used by professional
home energy auditor, it gives temperature readings, though not full
thermal images.
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Editor's Note: Scientific American's George Musser will be chronicling his
experiences installing solar panels in Solar at Home (formerly 60-Second
Solar).
Read his introduction here
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=
introducing-60-second-solar-a-famil-2009-02-25>
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and see all posts here.
<http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/solar-at-home>
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