[Noisebridge-discuss] PG&E Bill

[Joel Jaeggli]

jim wrote:
>    as to other power aspects, the cold season is upon 

Heat that the lighting happens to introduce into the space is heat that
you don't have to add via some other method, assuming the goal is to
heat it.

> us, and it looks like "the kitchen" is coming 
> together: both suggest greater power bills. 

There a some discussion I recall of an inductive stove top which is far
more efficient (as far as directing energy into the thing you actually
want heat rather than the surface or the space than radiant.

>    what's the possibility of using propane or similar 
> room heaters? and what's the possibility of 
> controlling the kinds of cooking and refrigeration 
> appliances we add? also, we should be aware of the 
> efficiencies of ventilation systems ("fart fans" in 
> the toilet rooms, darkroom vent fan, others). 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On Sun, 2009-12-06 at 15:46 -0800, Jeffrey Malone wrote:
>> Rather than starting a new thread, I'll just revive this one.
>>
>> We have received our new PG&E bill for the period of 11/4-12/4.
>>
>> The bill may be viewed here:
>> http://tehinterweb.com/PGE/PGE120609.pdf
>>
>> To summarise,  the bill is for $353.73, a drop of about $115 from the
>> previous bill.
>>  We used 2214Kwh over the period, at 71.4 per day, as compared to the
>> 73.6 we used for the previous billing cycle.
>>
>> The reason for the drop is due to a power rate drop. If you compare
>> the bills, you'll see the cost per Kwh in the last billing cycle was
>> approx $0.187880254, whereas for the most recent, it was approx
>> $0.131825327 -- about 1/3rd less.
>>
>>
>> I would still encourage us to look into what we can do to help reduce
>> power usage.  The lighting, I believe, is still the largest drain and
>> one of the most unnecessary ones.
>> The amount we're using is about $11.41/day or $0.48/hour, which seems
>> small, but if we were to cut out half our current lighting, we'd
>> likely cut our power usage by as much as a third.
>>
>> Anyone have any ideas on lighting?
>>
>> Jeffrey
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Nov 5, 2009 at 12:49 AM, Jeffrey Malone
>> <ieatlint at tehinterweb.com> wrote:
>>> At some point I'll have a better method of posting these, but right
>>> now I'll just throw this out there since I'm sure people are curious:
>>>
>>> http://tehinterweb.com/PGE110509.pdf
>>>
>>> In short, it's $468.44 and we used 2136Kwh (that's 73.6Kwh per day and
>>> 3Kw per hour!).
>>>
>>>
>>> Anyway, read it if you're curious, bitch if you think we're using too
>>> much, whatever.
>>>
>>> Jeffrey
>>>
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