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What Energy Are You Using Right Now?

KEEPING an eye on your energy use is vital if you want to save energy - seems rather obvious but in reality can be harder to do than say.

For instance how much energy are you using at this very moment?

If you are still on a traditional power meter apart from seeing how fast that wheel spins round and the numbers change you cannot tell how much energy you are using, not until you get your bill, which is either weeks or even months later.

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“Beam Me Up Scotty”

By Steve Hill

My Daughter, Vicky, is in the final year of here university course, Digital Art and Technology, and as part of her dissertation on the “Wants and Needs of Mobile Phones” she is dealing with the history of mobile communication.

I was talking to her about this particular section and as we talked I mentioned how things had changed over a relatively few years and science fiction was now fact.

This conversation coincided with our viewing of the classic 80s movie Back To The Future - which ends up with Doc Brown returning from 2015 with a flying car and some sort of domestic nuclear power source on the back of his Delorean!

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