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Girl power
Recently, we’ve been using a power meter to find out how much electricity our domestic appliances are using, and asking for polite suggestions where we could stick it next.
Barbara McStravick suggested that we connected up to the electrical products used in a daily beauty routine, so one intrepid Living contributor has done just that.
Cold comfort
The fridge is the latest household gadget to fall under the spotlight of our power meter, and the results are curdling.
Broadcast news
Remember our recent experiments with a power meter and various household appliances? This week it was the turn of the television.
We don’t watch TV much, but last weekend saw a jamboree of English sporting losses and the first live X Factor final, so our trusty telly got a decent workout.
In our element
Last week we came over all geeky with a plug-in power meter. Using it, we found out that brewing a cuppa costs about half a penny, but found ourselves wondering how much a week’s worth of cuppas cost.
The appliance of science
We’ve been reading and writing a lot about gadgets, chargers and all kinds of appliances that use electricity in the home. So much so, in fact, that we decided that a little investigation of our own was in order.
