Wednesday, October 2, 2013

Personal Energy Consumption

Over the course of the last three days, I have been instructed to track my energy consumption. This can be interpreted however I choose to do so. This is how I split it up.

Day One:
Lights: ~20 watts. I never turned a light on this day, but I shared lights with others (in buildings such as the science center and the campus center)
Computer:~400 watts. I used my computer at high efficiency for approximately two hours.
Food:~400 watts. Collectively I assumed that the time spent cooking the food that I ate and cleaning the dishes that I ate from took about 400 watts of power.

Overall for day one: 820 watts

Day Two:
Lights: ~100 watts. Combined with personal use and classroom use, I used many lights this day.
Computer:~ 400 watts.
Food:~ 400 watts.

Overall for day two: 900 watts

Day Three:
Lights:~100 watts
Computer:~100 watts
Food:~300 watts
Because I had a heavy work day in my text books, I did not end up using much external energy.

Overall for day three: 500 watts

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