Products of interest to Energy Consumption users

Watt Meters

• Cost Controller power strip w/built in watt meter (8-1800 watts?) for $100 :P

Lighting

PC Components

Wind Power

• See pacwind.net for (last I checked) a 500-watt, 48" vertical axis residential wind turbine for under $3000, among other goodies.

Products to Find

• Remote-switched power strip: You mount a mechanical switch by the door so that when you go home at night, you can cut power to everything your office. Vice versa on the way out in the morning. There are fancy "whole house power-off" buttons, but something that works for a single room would be cool and consume no power itself. Similar products include motion-sensing power strips and Christmas Tree light switches with the switch at the end of a cord ... perhaps someone makes a three-prong version of such?

• soft-off, soft-on sensor switch (I think these exist): motion-sensing power switches generally default to automatic mode ... but if you want to force them on or off, you press the appropriate button but it only stays in that state as long as it normally would. Mostly I want this so I can turn off lights when I leave rooms with sensors, but the "on" button might be handy to make sure a whole room lights up.

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