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	Coming Soon: Google Your Electricity Use

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2-14-2009 3:30 AM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/360a7e32-1de0-4071-8f63-e06dc7f0ba1e/33DBD41F-2F14-46C2-AFFB-81D6050610B1/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.alternet.org/" href="http://www.alternet.org/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.alternet.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/">Coming Soon: Google Your Electricity Use</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.alternet.org/img/867F093D-F5C9-4B0E-B8E3-C9A29CA0E0D8" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.alternet.org/">New software would allow you to monitor your home's electricity use in near real-time over the Web</blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=DB8FA9BC-4BFE-4AEF-B73F-8DEBABF68D63" href="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=DB8FA9BC-4BFE-4AEF-B73F-8DEBABF68D63" style="font-size: 11px;">content.clipmarks.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=DB8FA9BC-4BFE-4AEF-B73F-8DEBABF68D63"><DIV>Google.org, the philanthropy arm of the information giant, announced Tuesday that it is developing software that will allow users to monitor their home's electricity use in near real-time over the Web</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=DB8FA9BC-4BFE-4AEF-B73F-8DEBABF68D63"><DIV>The <A href="http://www.google.org/powermeter/index.html" linkindex="68" set="yes">Google PowerMeter</A> prototype, which is currently being tested on 30 of the company's workers, will require "smart meter" hardware that measures electricity use and can transmit real-time data to the power company</DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://content.clipmarks.com/view_clip.aspx?window=true&guid=DB8FA9BC-4BFE-4AEF-B73F-8DEBABF68D63"><DIV> if people could see exactly when they are using electricity and how much they are using, they will <A href="http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/02/power-to-people.html" linkindex="70">come up with ways to save it</A></DIV></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; 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