Dear PowerMeter User,
We first launched Google PowerMeter as a Google.org project to raise awareness about the importance of giving people access to their energy information. Since our launch, there's been more attention brought to this issue, and we're excited that PowerMeter has helped demonstrate the importance of access to energy data. However, our efforts have not scaled as quickly as we would have liked, so we have decided to retire PowerMeter.
You will continue to have access to the product until September 16, 2011, after which time you will no longer be able to access your PowerMeter account. We know that having access to your energy information has helped you save energy and money. There are many options available for you from our device and utility partners. Please visit this page to learn more:http://www.google.com/support/
We also understand that having your historical energy data is important to you. We've made it easy for you to download your data. To export your PowerMeter data to a CSV (Comma Separated Values) file, log in to your account and go to "Account Settings." More information can be found here: http://www.google.com/support/
We appreciate your understanding and hope that you've enjoyed using Google PowerMeter. If you have questions about this announcement, please visit our FAQ pages athttp://www.google.com/
Thank you,
Google PowerMeter team
© 2011 Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043
You've received this mandatory service announcement email to update you about important changes to your Google PowerMeter account.
Granted, this really has no effect on me. My TED will record data just fine and I'll still be able to blog about it. It's just I was hoping to show y'all my PowerMeter on my blog. I guess I can ditch that effort now. Maybe I'll have to investigate how to replicate my TED data somewhere else. Or at least have an automatic posting of what my daily usage is. That would be neat. Of course, that means I need to learn some potentially complicated coding. Bah! But...that's what my family of computer knowledgeable people is for, right? And my computer knowledgeable friends too.
FYI...I plan to get back on the ole' blog bandwagon a little more in the upcoming weeks. I have a ton of pics from some of my early energy efficiency work before I had this blog...or TED for that matter.
Oh yeah....update on the dehumidifier. It's still going on/off. That's annoying. But with the recent thunderstorms that has knocked out power (the dehumidifier doesn't automatically start back up), I've seen that the crawl space is now at 62% and holding. In a previous post a couple weeks back, after another power outage it was 67%, so its lowering. I just need to get it down to below 60% (maybe 55%?) and I'll be happy. It's probably sucking up all the water in the wood from the many previous years of high humidity. I may just setup the dehumidifier to run 3 hrs on/3 hrs off and I'll monitor how low it gets the crawl space to...and then how the humidity returns to. I gotta think that the lower the crawl space gets in the 3 hrs on...the more 'mass transfer' of water there will be from the wood to the atmosphere which will be removed. So the greater the 'delta' between air and wood, the faster the transfer. And that'll help me get to below my humidity goal.
Ok...that's enough...until next time...
No comments:
Post a Comment