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paulca:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 28, 2022, 10:15:38 pm ---Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really. ;D

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Says the man in France with the cheapest electric in the western world or certainly Europe.
Electroplated:

--- Quote from: paulca on September 29, 2022, 09:03:28 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 28, 2022, 10:15:38 pm ---Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really. ;D

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Says the man in France with the cheapest electric in the western world or certainly Europe.

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He's rich I tells ya, rich ! Cheap Electricity and affordable cheese, hes living a life of luxury we can only dream about.
paulca:

--- Quote from: Kasper on September 28, 2022, 07:40:16 pm ---When you turn off all your little 'heaters', does your heating bill go up? Or for those in warmer climates, does your a/c bill go down?

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I've considered this.  I've spent a few hours staring off into space trying to work out how to graph that and see where (if) they cross.  I decided it would be difficult, especially without a gas flow meter.

What I have definitely noticed is the heating started coming on 3 or 4 times a day for 15 minute bursts in the office. Losing that extra 100W of constant heat did get noticed.

However, electric heating is off to a bad start due to it being anywhere from 30-45% efficient and the 45% is dubious as I believe it need to be power from and via all the latest grid tech for someone living right beside the plant.

Also, they still ARE spreading propaganda encouraging using more power.  Over night cheap tariffs still exist.  That is  90% commercially driven an maybe 10% engineering practicalities on stop/starting the plants instead.

Then there are the renewable tariff scams.  Next time you are on the phone to your "green tariff" providing utilitiy.  Ask them for proof of generations certificates for all the power you consumed and for all the green power they sold.  They won't have them.  The industry is so loosely regulated they just say they lost them down the back of a filing cabinet.  They are traded, IOUd, borrowed, offset, debted, written off etc. etc.

The second things on those of course is that we don't generate any excess power, so switch YOUR meter to a green tariff, just means there is less green energy for eveyrone else, so they will just use dirty power.  It saves nothing.  The same amount of green and dirty power will get generated, the same amount of CO2 gets released, its just that you are mug enough to pay more for it.  Maybe the world is actually a nice place with fair people and that extra money goes to developing more renewables, but I fear that's dream world and it most likely ends up in an Exec staff bonus.

paulca:
The things I'm looking at now are the network infra stuffs.  I upgraded my house network to be fully VLAN switched to keep nosey work laptops out of the LAN etc.

Thing is there are 3 Wifi APs and 4 switches.  I know the 2 main routers use about 15W each and the switches use 10W each.  Well, at least 2 of them now power off.  I could technically do without one of the APs as I don't really have much wireless use for 5Ghz upstairs.
Electroplated:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on September 28, 2022, 10:15:38 pm ---Oh and saving a few W will save your life and the planet. Yeah, really. ;D

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All those watts add up, the money saved could be enough to cover the cost of boiling a pan of water in winter, so giving poor old aunt Ethel a much needed cup of hot oxo and therefor saving her from hypermedia and death.

Anyway, I cant stop here chatting, have to break up next doors furniture so we can have a hot meal tonight.
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