The Real Cost of Your Everyday Appliances and Devices

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The Real Cost of Your Everyday Appliances and Devicesby Editor on July 14, 2010

 Image Credit: TreeHugger and GE

Found this on TreeHugger.com by Jaymi Heimbuch:

"GE and Pentagram's Lisa Strausfeld have come up with a fantastic way to visualize how good or bad our appliances and devices are when it comes to using up our home's energy. We know that homes suck up about 20% of all energy in the US, but the question is where that energy is funneled off to once it reaches our homes, and how much it's costing us to run that ceiling fan or that electric blanket. The interactive tool tells you how much energy that appliance or device uses in watts, dollars, or gallons of gas, as well as what one kilowatt hour yields for that device, and even better, it will rank each device so that you can see at a glance which you want to unplug.

Strausfeld told Fast Company, 'The hardest challenge was finding the right data, and making it engaging--ie, What the hell is a watt? It started out as a visualization of home energy consumption across the U.S. and became, essentially, a calculator.'" Read More.

One of the recommendations in the article is to find out what the worst offenders are in your home is to pick up a wattage calculator and plug in your devices to see how much power is being used when it is on or in standby mode.

Happy calculating!

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