{"id":1067,"date":"2005-12-27T05:00:39","date_gmt":"2005-12-26T23:00:39","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2013-03-29T13:24:15","modified_gmt":"2013-03-29T20:24:15","slug":"killawatt-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/killawatt-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Kill-A-Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My electric bills are killing me, and now I can finally figure out exactly why.<\/p>\n<p>The Kill-A-Watt plugs into a wall outlet and will measure the actual electricity usage of any appliance. I&#8217;ve been wanting one of these things for years, to the point of seriously considering manufacturing one myself. I&#8217;m glad someone has finally done it for me. It looks like my computer costs me something like $216 a year to run. Trouble is, I have five of them. Something&#8217;s gotta go.<\/p>\n<p>Street price for this device is about $30. I should save that much in the first month.<\/p>\n<p>An additional idea that I thought of would be combining these units with that cheesy home-network technology that communicates via your home&#8217;s electrical system. (Or use WiFi) That way several wall units could communicate with a PC and give you a running total of your energy consumption. The system could automatically retrieve your electrical rates from the Internet and even give you a running total in dollars of what you&#8217;re spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Electrical usage meter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[12],"tags":[1350],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11184,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1067\/revisions\/11184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/cooltools\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}