I’ve always been interested in how much electricity I’ve been using, and where I’ve been wasting it. Yes, I can look at my electricity bill every month, but I wanted more. So, I bought the Kill A Watt (get it?!)

Basically, you plug this device into a standard 3 prong socket, and plug in other devices into that. It shows you current voltage draw, amperage, but best of all, kilowatts! There’s also a timer, as well as a kw/H meter so you can see EXACTLY how much juice you’re using for any period of time.

It just came in today, and with a few hours of use under my belt, here’s what I found.

So despite the fact that most of you guys live nowhere near NYC, I thought I’d ask your outside opinion on something.

What do you think about a congestion tax in a city, or what’s also known as congestion pricing?

details after the jump.

because, well, it was SATURDAY!

It became a feast day in the Roman Catholic Church due to the influence of the Waterford-born Franciscan scholar Luke Wadding² in the early part of the 17th century, and is a holy day of obligation for Roman Catholics in Ireland. The date of the feast is occasionally moved by church authorities when March 17 falls during Holy Week; this happened in 1940 when Saint Patrick’s Day was observed on April 3 in order to avoid it coinciding with Palm Sunday, and happened again in 2008, having been observed on 15 March. March 17 will not fall during Holy Week again until 2160.

I forgot to post about this but this one is for all you hippies out there. The US federal government has approved a renewable energy source that makes energy from the waves of the ocean.