Last Day Of March [Earth Hour] ... (03/31/2012)

[ArtWilliams]

Originally Posted by cd34

which probably put out more CO2 than the electricity you're not using... I've actually been toying with reducing electric use at the home for the last month and documenting some of the theories so I can build a device to measure, notify and possibly control a few things. With the price of Arduinos down to $40, RaspberryPi down to $30, it is pretty inexpensive to make a small embedded computer to handle certain things without tossing a few hundred dollar computer at it.

Other than that, a bit more code on the agenda for today.

I hope everyone has a great Saturday.

RaspberryPi is exciting. I can't wait to get one.

In Ontario, the Government is eliminating all coal powered plants. The result is that now 50% of our power comes from nuclear plants with the remainder natural gas, hydro and newable sources.

[cd34]

Originally Posted by artwilliams

RaspberryPi is exciting. I can't wait to get one.

In Ontario, the Government is eliminating all coal powered plants. The result is that now 50% of our power comes from nuclear plants with the remainder natural gas, hydro and newable sources.

RaspberryPI looks cool, but, I'm liking Arduino a bit more as you can build components with it.

I wish the US would adopt the Canadian Nuclear plant design. Control rods are powered by the grid in the US, so, a failure of the grid for whatever reason means our control rods have to be lowered with batteries that are on-site. In Canada, the control rods are held by electromagnets, so, in the event of a power failure for whatever reason, the control rods instantly scram the reactor. Florida Power and Light did get approval for two more plants at each of the two existing nuclear sites in Florida, but, I think with the growth down here, nuclear is only going to be 30% and we appear to be pushing natural gas and combined cycle plants. They just got approval to demolish a coal plant in Fort Lauderdale and we got rid of our bunker-C plant in Palm beach - though, they only burned the black smoke producing oil at night when you couldn't tell what color the smoke was.

[ecchi]

Originally Posted by cd34

RaspberryPI looks cool

Ordered mine this morning, but they have still not got EU clearance so I won't get it for a while.