Sunday, March 30, 2008

dark hour plus

Chronology of house power down.

See: Enlightened Citizens of the World 'in the dark' for Earth Hour

3:55 filmed power meter "before"

3:59 shutdown unix server, vonage dongle, voip wireless phone base. Skipped downstairs hub-dongle buried.

4:02 microwave, coffee machine-skipped stove, fridge and wired phone base. Dongle for kitchen stereo. Unplugged DeWalt cordless radio charger and B&D FireStorm charger.

4:07 Unplugged tv, dvds and laptop charger.

4:27 filmed power meter "after". Hot water heater is on. Dishes? Later.


Before - 8 seconds of power meter - note the radial sweep

[Removed QT video rendered into something unintelligible as it cause RSS faults, as well as Firefox on NetBSD to die suddenly]

After:

About 15 seconds - imperceptible rotation.


[Removed QT video rendered into something unintelligible as it cause RSS faults, as well as Firefox on NetBSD to die suddenly]


And, quiet time with the pets:





Dinner was a can of soup with extras, prepared using my solid fuel powered backpack stove.


I brought the lights back up around 9:30, switched on the heat and the background hum of electronic devices.

To see the videos, try my SDN blog titled "When the music's over ... turn out the lights,"

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