{"id":2158,"date":"2008-05-29T23:58:56","date_gmt":"2008-05-30T03:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/?p=2158"},"modified":"2017-08-18T18:02:32","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T18:02:32","slug":"ambient-power-consumption-monitoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/05\/29\/ambient-power-consumption-monitoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Ambient Power Consumption Monitoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2533292028\/\" title=\"20080528_12-15-34 by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3019\/2533292028_24429cb808.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"20080528_12-15-34\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/julianbleecker\/2533294198\/\" title=\"20080528_12-15-38 by JulianBleecker, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3142\/2533294198_7d4d2b5e5d.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" alt=\"20080528_12-15-38\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Picked a couple of these &#8220;Ecowatt&#8221; devices up while in Tokyo, from Bic Camera. They monitor power consumption of whatever you&#8217;ve plugged into it. Here I had my MacBook Pro plugged in and running (no sleep) for about 24 hours. The device simply runs through four measurements \u2014 two I have no idea about because the symbols are in Kanji, and then two more that are kilowatt hours of consumption and estimated CO2 that would be exhausted from, presumably, a power plant that produced CO2 gas.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s lots of work to be done around this sort of idea, first of all a more compelling UI. Maybe even the draconian edition that starts to dim your display or attenuate your Internet as you run past your daily quota of energy.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picked a couple of these &#8220;Ecowatt&#8221; devices up while in Tokyo, from Bic Camera. They monitor power consumption of whatever you&#8217;ve plugged into it. Here I had my MacBook Pro plugged in and running (no sleep) for about 24 hours. The device simply runs through four measurements \u2014 two I have no idea about because &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/05\/29\/ambient-power-consumption-monitoring\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ambient Power Consumption Monitoring<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[52,55,94,117],"tags":[239,754,832,834,859],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v14.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ambient Power Consumption Monitoring - Near Future Laboratory<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.nearfuturelaboratory.com\/2008\/05\/29\/ambient-power-consumption-monitoring\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ambient Power Consumption Monitoring - Near Future Laboratory\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Picked a couple of these &#8220;Ecowatt&#8221; devices up while in Tokyo, from Bic Camera. 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