Posted by: Barry Cleave in Freeware, tags: Climate Change, Energy Saving, Gadgets, Greenhouse Gas, Independant Review, Independent Review, Power Saving, Pro Reviewer, Utilities, Windows, WIndows Vista, Windows XP
What’s This About?
Edison is a program that allows you to change and save the standard windows power options in a simple interface for two different times “Work” and “Other”. It also has a simple scheduling option to switch between the two on a once per day basis.
Why Would You Want It?
You can easily change the standard Windows Power Options Properties by selecting Power Options in Control Panel as the last post Windows Power Schemes - Set and Forget to Reduce Your Electricity Bill:
As you can see from the post under the Windows Power Options Properties - Power Schemes tab you can change all the options which are more than in Edison, you can also save as many different power schemes as you want. The advantage of Edison lies in the ability to automatically schedule two different power schemes to suit your pattern of use.
What Does It Do - The Essentials?
Summary:
- Quick and Simple Setting of 2 Power schemes
- Schedule Switching between the schemes once per day
- Helps save power for desktop PCs
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
- Freeware
- See estimated savings
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Popularity: 25% [?]
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What’s This About?
The recent large increases in electricity prices has really focused my attention on how much electricity I am using. In an effort to try to cut consumption I have started on a plan to reduce my usage of electricity without to much impact on what I normally do about the house. One of the steps is to find out how much I am using at any one time and what can be done to cut back. I therefore decided that to help with this a method of monitoring electricity consumption in real time and with a means to instantly see the effect of switching something on or off was needed. Having done a quick trawl of the web I found the OWL Wireless Electricity Monitor.
Why Would You Want It?
The most pressing reason for many will be an effort to reduce electricity bills which was started me off on this course as I said above. If you also have a concern for the unnecessary consumption of diminishing resources, the effect of greenhouse gas emissions on global warming along with the obvious damage to the environment, weather changes that are causing short term destruction through storms and long term damage to peoples live and livelihoods through local climate change then this is a way to help do your bit. As with all these things there is something of a trade off You have to recoup the financial cost of the meter to you personally and the cost of manufacturing and transporting the meter in environmental terms.
The ProReviewer post Be Clean, Green and Energy Efficient - Plus Save Money with WakeupOnStandBy pointed to one way to help save electricity and there will be some more posts on reducing bills as well as saving energy consumption and helping the environment, sustainability, etc.
What Does It Do - The Essentials?
Summary:
- Measures Electricity Usage at the meter
- Displays power used, cost and greenhouse gas emission
- Gives room temperature and humidity
- Easy DIY “Connection”
Pros: What’s Good?
Features & Benefits
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Popularity: 28% [?]
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