http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 08:42:26 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/#comment-24992 Fri, 24 Jul 2009 03:14:53 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37292#comment-24992 apparently i can leave the link here in the comments. search youtube for “AlertMe – I’ve got something new”, you’ll see what AlertMe has really been up to over the last three years.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/#comment-24991 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 16:24:10 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37292#comment-24991 Who the hell does the research for these articles? “Over its 3-year lifetime, Cambridge, UK-based home energy management startup AlertMe…” Wrong!
Here is a video from a year ago, clearly they were a DIY Home Security company before the green washing.

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/#comment-24990 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 04:02:22 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37292#comment-24990 I was recently given the opportunity to review a Green Smart Power Strip, intended for saving energy in a home computing environment. The principle is sound, the master outlet will turn off other outlets when it is not being used. Reading your article, I see this smart power concept being extended to include a wireless communications capability. As a technologist I like technical solutions to energy issues. But here is the problem: In our study which can be read on our web site – open4energy.com – Vampire Power Facts we find that there is zero energy to be saved using this smart strip in a typical home office. Laptops have built in speakers so they do not need turning off. The printers do not do well re-initializing each time the laptop sleeps, and are better left turned off. The energy savings opportunities are in the laptops power manager, closing the screen saver, screen brightness, office lighting, and not printing extra pages. Good for paper reduction. None of these need technology, they need educations and user awareness. I do hope we can pick up on this smart power management “thing” and winkle out the technologies looking for a problem that is better recognized as user bad behavior. We did not fix the litter problem by making automated trash removers that zapped wherever we dropped, why are we wanting to do the equivalent for the careless leaving of a light on? Finding that the smart strip used 1.9 Watts continuously to do this “not useful” work was the final insult ….

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/#comment-24989 Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:50:58 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37292#comment-24989 [...] via AlertMe Inks First Utility Trial With British Gas. [...]

]]> http://gigaom.com/cleantech/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/#comment-24988 Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:27:34 +0000 http://earth2tech.com/?p=37292#comment-24988 [...] AlertMe Inks First Utility Trial with British Gas Posted July 20, 2009 Filed under: Uncategorized | http://earth2tech.com/2009/07/19/alertme-inks-first-utility-trial-with-british-gas/ [...]

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