Comments on: Who killed the networked fridge? http://blockslabpillar.com/2008/11/08/semantic-web-and-climate-change/ A weblog by Silver Oliver Fri, 08 Jul 2011 19:21:53 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Toby Inkster http://blockslabpillar.com/2008/11/08/semantic-web-and-climate-change/comment-page-1/#comment-60 Toby Inkster Tue, 11 Nov 2008 08:46:38 +0000 http://blockslabpillar.com/?p=9#comment-60 You may be interested in an article "Renewable energy: Will the lights stay on?" by Helen Knight which appeared in _New Scientist_ issue 2677 (8 Oct 2008). It includes information about refrigerators which monitor the national power grid (using tiny fluctuations in the frequency of their AC supply) and switch themselves off when they detect that the grid is over-stretched. According to the article, the cost of fitting these "dynamic demand: controllers is no more than £4 per appliance. You may be interested in an article “Renewable energy: Will the lights stay on?” by Helen Knight which appeared in _New Scientist_ issue 2677 (8 Oct 2008). It includes information about refrigerators which monitor the national power grid (using tiny fluctuations in the frequency of their AC supply) and switch themselves off when they detect that the grid is over-stretched.

According to the article, the cost of fitting these “dynamic demand: controllers is no more than £4 per appliance.

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