Healthy soil and sustainable growing

[mdnagel@verizon.net]

I was going to mention that (or using a Kill-A-Watt meter), but decided not to because there's lots of stuff that people might have (and generally would be higher electrical consumption, like furnaces and stoves) that would be hard to measure.  Too bad that power panels couldn't have real time readouts (and perhaps cumulative and reset-able functions) on their panels for each circuit.

But, in an attempt (perhaps futile) to tie this into group-speak, it demonstrates the need to be able to properly address all of your inputs and consumption (including your own physical ones), as this is how you determine sustainability.


-Mark Nagel
Everett, WA


Feb 12, 2010 06:11:55 AM, livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org wrote:

Actually there is another way to compare the two - its a little expensive, but if you can run everything from plugs you can buy a little machine that measures kwh using an inductance coil in parallel with the load (and draws little current itself) and compare that to your electric companies notion of what you used. The trouble here is you'd have to forgo anything that isn't coming from a plug,put one on each recepticle and plug in from that - but you could get a pretty reasonable measure of the variation. In fact if your meter is human readable you could probably measure it real time should you need a quick and dirty sample.