Getting Energy Smart Using Today's Technology
I got to attend the final afternoon of the CleanTech event in San Francisco this week. I got to meet professionals investing in eco-smart technologies and services, and talked with people interested in influencing better behaviors, like the blog TreeHugger.
I videotaped the keynote by Intel’s Sean Maloney, who talked about finding useful, energy efficient solutions using today’s technologies — like compute power from the latest Core i7 — and common software services available to people through the Internet.
One of my favorite demonstrations of this was an experiment being carried out by an Intel employee in Oregon. He has his electricity monitored minute-to-minute with an online dashboard. This dashboard showed a consumption meter that could toggle from Watts being used then to the actually price he was paying for that moment’s use of electricity.
If I had this for my home, I’d certainly find ways to moderate my energy consumption in peak periods. I might push me to find ways for lowering my monthly energy use by turning off unused lights or plugged-in appliances. I’m doing these things now, but seeing on my computer screen a live meter with a real-time price tag ticking while my money gets sucked away…I bet I’d be motivated even more to cut my energy consumption.
The dashboard reminded me of the computerized dashboard I have on my car. I always dial into the dynamic miles per gallon read out, so I can see how much gas I’m consuming at any second. Seeing those numbers drop lower than double digits prompts me to pull my foot off the accelerator. Maybe someday I’ll be able to do the same for the electricity being sucked in to power my home.
Sean also showed how other industries might use the latest and greatest technologies available today to design and construct energy-smart buildings using 3-D modeling.
From my few hours spent at the event, I was inspired to see so many great ideas and people eager to shift to a better, cleaner way of designing products and services. CleanTech is something I’d like to keep my eye on in the years to come.
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