{"id":843,"date":"2007-02-05T03:14:45","date_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"tag:feeds.computerworld.com:\/\/dc85a91827fe8481a977d80de6144877"},"modified":"2007-02-05T03:14:45","modified_gmt":"2007-02-05T11:14:45","slug":"saving-electricity-is-hard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/?p=843","title":{"rendered":"Saving electricity is hard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity bill came in this week, my first since October and the first since I tried to simplify my power requirements through a rationalization of the hardware (read <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4033\">Switching hardware and saving energy<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Has it worked? <\/p>\n<p>Strangely, over the course of the three months, despite now using only 3 computers instead of six to do my work, my electricity bill is actually slightly higher than before. <\/p>\n<p>That doesn't quite match up with the 25% reduction in energy costs I was seeing before Christmas, which I based on the electricity meter readings which were at the time down significantly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=HJjdyl\"><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=HJjdyl\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p><img src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/86722060\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The electricity bill came in this week, my first since October and the first since I tried to simplify my power requirements through a rationalization of the hardware (read <b ><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerworld.com\/blogs\/node\/4033\">Switching hardware and saving energy<\/a><\/b>. <\/p>\n<p>Has it worked? <\/p>\n<p>Strangely, over the course of the three months, despite now using only 3 computers instead of six to do my work, my electricity bill is actually slightly higher than before. <\/p>\n<p>That doesn&#8217;t quite match up with the 25% reduction in energy costs I was seeing before Christmas, which I based on the electricity meter readings which were at the time down significantly.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?a=HJjdyl\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~a\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown?i=HJjdyl\" border=\"0\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.computerworld.com\/~r\/Computerworld\/MartinMCBrown\/~4\/86722060\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/843\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planet.mcb.guru\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}