"If you cannot measure it, you cannot improve it." — Lord Kelvin

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Got questions about saving energy and money? Google.org will soon have personalized answers just for you! How much electricity does the fridge use? Which results in more cost savings: turning down the thermostat one degree or turning off your laptop? Google is in the testing stages for a prototype product called the Google PowerMeter that will give users real time information about their energy consumption. This device will be free and will show how much energy your house is using at any point throughout the day right on your Google homepage! One tester of the prototype reported seeing a spike in energy use in the kitchen, only to find out that the toaster oven had been turned on all night. Another switched from using a toaster oven to a regular toaster, which he reports uses 33 times less energy. We hope this device is available for general use soon, so we too can figure out the energy wasters in our house!

Read more here: http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html
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