Welcome to the EnergyConsumption users wiki!

EnergyConsumption.org is currently a web site for people interested in watt meters and saving power. This site contains most of my ideas for the EnergyConsumption, but the ideas of the "users' wiki" is a place for EnergyConsumption users to ask and answer questions, contribute ideas, and storm up fun and creative ways of getting at least as much out of life while using less energy.

For now, this is also the place to contribute your consumption data since main site doesn't yet have a database. If you have any related projects, shopping, or questions / observations, we'd love to have you contribute to the wiki. Your ideas will mix with others' making energy pondering a lot more fun.

(A good place to start browsing is Big Picture. We also have a new page about energy-efficient Lighting options.)

Ideas (someday to ec.org proper?)

• list of people willing to share their watt meters (and expertise)
  • Borrow a Meter
• Database of watt meter data for various devices
  • http://energyconsumption.org/data.txt
• Products: lowest-power product recommendations
  • Lighting
• templates for collecting data (PDF and spreadsheet)
• step-by-step specific suggestions (that pick up where other sites have left off?)
• focus/purpose is helping the curious answers their questions?
• Directions (what sort?)
• Links (to existing resources / articles putting the data in context)
• Watt Meter Reviews

Questions (pose imponderables or tap the group's expertise)

• How should I cool the electronics in my attic?
• What's Caltrain's gas mileage?
• What's the spot price of electricity during various peak times, during the 2001 manipulation/crisis, etc? i.e. when does PG&E start making money by paying you top tier rates for the kWs coming off your PV Panels?
• ...

Projects (for your home or community)

• Yahoo Answers
• Solar Powered Garden Lighting
• more...

Users

• Soren
• Xinh
• Jonah
• ...
• new user?

Activities (if we wanted to reach out)

• Facilitate implementation of Community Energy Workbook ideas which start off:

  "In a typical town, seventy to eighty cents of every dollar spent on energy immediately leaves the local economy. Finding ways to reduce these costs and plug these leaks initiates a series of local economic benefits."

• The Booth
• Work with (or replicate) Acterra's Green@Home project in which volunteers come to your house to help figure out how to save energy there.