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Power Strip Knows How Guilty You Should Feel

Written by Hank Green

Wednesday, 30 April 2008

I find my reliance on power strips embarrassing. But now I can feel even more guilty with one of these! Finally, I could see how much power I'm pulling from the wall here at EcoGeek HQ so I can feel really bad about it and, maybe, actually do something about it.

This guy remembers how much power has moved through the strip over the last day, week, month, or year and thanks to an onboard battery, it remembers forever.

It can also monitor the quality of power coming into your office, which can be useful for ubergeeks. But for us average geeks, this could be a fairly useful little tool. Two questions though:

How much power does the device, itself, consume?
How is this $99 device different from my $20 kill-a-watt mixed with a $10 power strip?

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written by T , April 30, 2008

I finally bought a Smart Strip too. It's taken too long to green my electronics!

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written by Gulag2008 , April 30, 2008

Exactly how is this different?
$10 dollar power strip
$25 dollar killawatt
I would even add a $20 wall timer to the mix.
You would still have $45 dollars left over.
With that $45 dollars, I would buy a
Earthled CL-5 light bulb that only uses 5 watts.

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		Hank Green is the founder and chief geek at EcoGeek.org. Aside from being obsessed with saving the planet with technology, he loves to write and make videos. If you want to find out more about him, visit hankgreen.com

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