[Greenbuilding] So, you think you can top this?

Richard Garbary richard6 at gmail.com
Sun Dec 9 08:07:07 CST 2012


Typo:

.338 watt hours per day should have been:

338 watt hours per day or .338 kwh/day


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On Sun, Dec 9, 2012 at 1:38 AM, Reuben Deumling <9watts at gmail.com> wrote:

> I cannot top this, but there was a time when we (two adults, small
> apartment) used 28 kWh over an equivalent time period. Within shouting
> distance I suppose.
> Alas having since moved into a single family house and having a daughter
> and a home office with two laptops and an internet connection, a chest
> freezer and a basement woodworking shop we're now closer to 100 kWh for
> that amount of time....
>
> On Sat, Dec 8, 2012 at 9:31 PM, Paul Eldridge <
> paul.eldridge at ns.sympatico.ca> wrote:
>
>> I've always prided myself on being rather stingy in my use of
>> electricity, but it appears I'm an unrepentant spendthrift compared to past
>> family members.  Whilst rummaging through my grandparent's papers, I came
>> across the power bill linked below (hand written, no less !), dated
>> September 1st, 1948.  It covers a 62-day billing cycle and the total amount
>> consumed is a whopping TWENTY-ONE kWh !
>>
>> See: http://i362.photobucket.com/**albums/oo69/HereinHalifax/**
>> NSP1948Statement.jpg<http://i362.photobucket.com/albums/oo69/HereinHalifax/NSP1948Statement.jpg>
>>
>> This wasteful scoundrel hangs his head in shame.
>>
>
>
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