Comments on: Google Debuts PowerMeter Energy Monitoring Tool http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/ Future-forward design for the world you inhabit Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:52:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: cheoelleonhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/comment-page-1/#comment-118093 cheoelleon Sat, 21 Feb 2009 05:56:56 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/#comment-118093 I'm all for energy and lots of it!!! Use all you want as long as it's clean and renewable. The electricity that they are selling us is on an out dated grid and we are at their mercy. Thus the need for energy conservation. The problem with letting them monitor our every watt is that eventually monitoring will turn into control. They will want to stop you from using certain things during peak loads. (ex:flushing toilets in Austrailia, or watering your lawn in L.A.) Maybe they wont let you use your major appliances during specific times. Eventually they will decide they don't like other things you do. Then it will have went from monitoring to control and censorship. Beware of what you ask for. The answer isnt to monitor and regulate our energy. It is to stop depending on sources that are controlled, outdated, and limited just to fatten someones pockets. Make energy sources like the sunlight available to everyone. There is enough sunlight poured down on earth in one minute to provide enough power for all the planets energy demands for a year. And best of all it's free! I’m all for energy and lots of it!!! Use all you want as long as it’s clean and renewable. The electricity that they are selling us is on an out dated grid and we are at their mercy. Thus the need for energy conservation.
The problem with letting them monitor our every watt is that eventually monitoring will turn into control. They will want to stop you from using certain things during peak loads. (ex:flushing toilets in Austrailia, or watering your lawn in L.A.) Maybe they wont let you use your major appliances during specific times. Eventually they will decide they don’t like other things you do. Then it will have went from monitoring to control and censorship. Beware of what you ask for. The answer isnt to monitor and regulate our energy. It is to stop depending on sources that are controlled, outdated, and limited just to fatten someones pockets. Make energy sources like the sunlight available to everyone. There is enough sunlight poured down on earth in one minute to provide enough power for all the planets energy demands for a year. And best of all it’s free!

]]> By: CNT Energyhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/comment-page-1/#comment-117204 CNT Energy Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:00:34 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/#comment-117204 I help run a real-time pricing program in Illinois that allows residential customers use the market prices for electricity. Using a technology like this where you can easily see your usage in conjunction with the current price of electricity and the cost savings potential is even greater.Check out our program at http://www.powersmartpricing.org. The only one of its kind. Follow us here: www.powersmartpricing.blogspot.com I help run a real-time pricing program in Illinois that allows residential customers use the market prices for electricity. Using a technology like this where you can easily see your usage in conjunction with the current price of electricity and the cost savings potential is even greater.

Check out our program at http://www.powersmartpricing.org. The only one of its kind. Follow us here: http://www.powersmartpricing.blogspot.com

]]> By: erwinvwhttp://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/comment-page-1/#comment-117200 erwinvw Tue, 10 Feb 2009 21:39:10 +0000 http://www.inhabitat.com/2009/02/10/google-debuts-powermeter-energy-monitoring-app/#comment-117200 The idea is great and will certainly work. But what I do not like is that Google knows everyting about you at the end. What do you search, read, where do you live, your work, where you go on vacation, who do you call, send mail, and now also where you are at the present time.There are plenty of options for viewing and mapping your energy. Without the intervention of your energy supplier our Google. Why not improve your entire view of consumption such as gas, water and electricity. Without the interference of Google and energy companies using the information for their own purpose.Soon, Google becomes the energy supplier? The idea is great and will certainly work. But what I do not like is that Google knows everyting about you at the end. What do you search, read, where do you live, your work, where you go on vacation, who do you call, send mail, and now also where you are at the present time.

There are plenty of options for viewing and mapping your energy. Without the intervention of your energy supplier our Google.
Why not improve your entire view of consumption such as gas, water and electricity.
Without the interference of Google and energy companies using the information for their own purpose.

Soon, Google becomes the energy supplier?

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