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Originally Posted by 3RRL  We've managed our energy use to where it's down below 13kW a day now, sometimes a little more but sometimes a little less too. It's a learning curve of turning everything off ... all electrical gadgets, computers, shavers, toothbrushes etc are on power strips and they all get turned off at night. |
That's an impressively low amount of power use... of course everything but the furnace and stove are electric in my house so...
Living off the grid certainly seems like a lifestyle all onto its own.
We went to Tahiti once on a vacation and stayed in a bungalow. Your room key went into a slot on a panel right inside the door that controlled all the electrical. When you went out everything was turned off.
Seems like a way to make houses more effiecent rather than running around turning off power strips etc. Leave the house, hit a button and only the critical circuits get power.