Power!

[fivemack]

This year (21 December to 21 December, because that's where the billing cycle rolls), I have used on average 642 watts of electricity, and 858 cubic metres of gas.

That is, if I remember my units and my GCSE physics correctly, enough electricity to smelt enough aluminium to make a seven-foot-high solid statue of myself, and enough methane to inflate a balloon larger than my house and capable of lifting that above-life-size statue.

I don't have any plans at present to divert my electricity and gas supply for 2009 entirely to that endeavour.

Comments

[angoel.livejournal.com]

Do you have any plans to divert it partially to that endeavour?

[tau-iota-mu-c.livejournal.com]

You should. You so should.

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

858 m^3 in what time period - the whole year? That's not an average ;) </pedant>

[fivemack.livejournal.com]

For this reason, brave sir Pedant, I introduced a comma.

Perversely interested in electricity bills

[pavanne.livejournal.com]

That sounds like quite a lot of electricity to me! Can I ask how much it cost per kWh?

I estimate you'd need a 6kW PV system to generate that much electricity (and a big battery, if you were going offgrid). Which would be a *big* rooftop system, bigger than the average for California where the houses are massive. Then again California is about twice as sunny...

Anyway, the aluminium statue is probably a better investment.