calculate energy usage

I think I would explain this site to her and it is time she knows about bills and utilities and how they work. And so if she continues(if it is left on so many more times) she will be charged for it. And before she can do certain other activities or get some thing she wants she will have to pay this amount to you.

Hi, It is very useful site. I would like to try it. We many times keep our lights, TV, computer, fans on when they are not in use. It is the waste of energy. We always talk about energy saving measures but we don't apply it individually in our house. We should start to save energy from our home. It is very nice that you teach your grand daughter how to save energy.

A guy on TV was talking about conserving energy. He said he conserved more energy than his girlfriend because he didn't use a hair dryer like she did. Because he was bald. And with a complete straight face, and he was not kidding, he said, if she REALLY cared about conserving energy she'd shave her head.

Not exactly an ogre, but there is an expression "penny wise and pound foolish" that comes to mind when people start discussing pennies that add up on power bills. Of course she should get in the habit of turning off her lamp, but more important she should remember to lock the front door. I know someone whose live-in grandone doesn't think to do that. Now that is truly scary.

It's good to be able to find ways to save money. Telling your granddaughter what might have been but what wasn't because that money was used wastefully, isn't a bad thing. Our government should try doing that.

Lamps are horribly inexpensive to leave on. Short story... I have a light outside the door to my condo. When I first moved here, there was a problem with the street lights, and for two years, the lights were out. I got into the habit of leaving my light on outside my door, because it was the only light on my car, and we had a number of vandals. I then purchased a low power florescent light, which runs off 17 watts. The average price for power (higher in more 'green-energy' states), is about 12¢ per KiloWatt Hour. That's 1000 watt hours. If you leave on a 17 Watt light for an hour, that's 17 watt hours. If you leave that on 24 hours a day, that 24x17= 407 watt hours. Remember, 1,000 watt hours is 12¢. I leave this light on year around. With the only exception of Halloween. 364 days, times 407 watt hours a day = 148,512 watt hours... or 148.5 KiloWatt hours. Times 12¢ = $17.82 That little light, running 24 hours a day, 364 days a year, is costing me a whooping..... $18. So if your daughters little light is a 100 watt light, and she's gone 8 hours at school, that's 800 watt hours. If you are charged 12¢ per 1,000 watt hours, that's 9.6¢ each day she leaves it on. Most of your expenses will come from the massive blower on your furnace, or from any air conditioning units, and lastly anything that makes heat. Hair driers, heaters, hot plates, electric ranges. It used to be that old stereos and TVs used tons of power, but now they typically use less than lamps do.