A little bit more about the Yello Google PowerMeter interface for Sparzähler online. The utility has videos on its web promotion page, as well as a YouTube channel, including a video that shows the user experience on the home computer in more detail.
The start page also features an advert with ...
Thu 23 Jul 02009
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data,
home
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The Edenbee blog has a post today about a sweet-looking smart meter (designed by IDEO) from German utility company Yello Strom, that integrates with Google PowerMeter and Twitter. While it may not seem very practical to stream energy data through Twitter, it's offerings like this, that open up the energy data stream, ...
Thu 21 Aug 02008
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data,
mobile,
mpg,
tool
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With the release of iPhone 2.0 came a torrent of new (Apple-approved) 3rd party applications, among them several focusing on car fuel efficiency. These are for the folks fortunate enough to own an iPhone and yet not yet ascended to the hallowed plane of hybrid ownership. Here's a rundown of ...
Wed 11 Jun 02008
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awareness,
data,
home
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Spend any time researching the current field of home energy monitoring products and you're very likely to see mention of the Kill-A-Watt, a device from P3 International. The Kill-A-Watt can read the energy use of an appliance plugged into it, and is marketed as a tool for identifying the ...
Mon 17 Mar 02008
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data,
footprint,
map
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Carbon Monitoring for Action (CARMA), reveals the emissions of power plants and electric utilities across the world. Its database contains information on the carbon emissions of over 50,000 power plants and 4,000 power companies.
(CARMA is produced and financed by the Confronting Climate Change Initiative at the Center for ...
Mon 17 Mar 02008
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data,
footprint
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In the comments to an earlier post, pfly asked a key question that hits on a problem designers and architects of green interfaces will need to consider as we strive to make more useful tools. pfly lives in the Pacific Northwest, where emissions of greenhouse gases due to ...