Progress

Heyas,

So now I've created the "environment" page (not the final name). It's intended to give you an idea of how much it costs to run the devices in your house.

So I have the hairdryer there - with 4000Watts - and you can start the timer - and watch the cost in your currency slowly (or rapidly in the case of the hair dryer) increasing. It's interesting to watch - and just compare (you can run two things at the same time). The clothes dryer is crazy expensive!

I'd also like to add how much it costs to do a full charge of your phone.

It would also be nice to somehow visualise the amount of carbon dioxide that using that device is actually producing. Visualising it - like a cloud spreading across the ground - out from your house. That might be an interesting thing to do.

I've also added a section that you can use to help you work out how many watts the device is REALLY using. So for example - a hairdryer only uses 4000Watts when it is at MAXIMUM power. So this little calculator allows you to record the amount of kWh (kiloWatt hours) on your electricity meter in your house. You record it then start a stopwatch (most people have a built in stopwatch in their mobile phone...) then after 60 seconds you stop it - and check the kWhs again. Then you switch the device on and use it while your flatmate checks the electricity meter again.

So then you have 4 readings. These can then be used to calculate how much EXTRA that deviced used in that 60 seconds time period - and you can work out how many Watts it is actually using. I'm sure that this just gives an approximate idea (and you'd want to make sure that your refrigerator doesn't switch on while you are testing your device..) but it's an interesting little bit of the application. We'll see how it goes.

I'm off travelling tomorrow - so no more work for a few days!

Yahoo!

Catchya later!


Swendawg.