(This letter was sent to multiple Island newspapers on June 8, 2023. Published: June 12 Times Colonist.) Dear Editor,We have four alternatives to Highway 4. Three roads are controlled by Mosaic Forest Company and one railway escaped the fire and floods but not decades of Government neglect. It is time for Government’s stubborn, ideological resistance …
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So last night I tracked my consumption during Earth Hour with The Energy Detective hooked up to this webite. Here’s the graph for the hour (click for larger image). It updates approximately every 1-2 seconds. Now I have all electric baseboard heating as well as cooking and other appliances. We don’t have any Natural Gas …
So for Christmas my lovely wife got me the only present I really wanted. “The Energy Detective” What is it? It’s a “whole house” energy monitor. Basically, one part of it hooks into a breaker in your electrical panel and clamps onto the power lines that come into your house. (Not nearly as scary as …
