What new "green energy technologies" are you excited about?
I am very excited about some energy conservation measures that are suddenly now very affordable and very available to a lot of the population. By that, I mean smart switches. When you leave the house you just hit one switch and all your non-essential stuff goes off. It's a wireless system. You can have one outlet with two plugs in it. You think "What? I can't I've got my VCR in one plug and I don't want the clock to be reset every time I come home. I can't turn that off. I've got to have my answering machine plugged in there as well and I've got to leave that whole outlet "ON"." No, now you can separate them out. You can have different power strips, in that you can have top half of the switch stay ON when you are gone, because you have your answering machine on that, your VCR, or something that has a clock in it; and in the bottom half of that same two plug outlet you can have totally switched off. Everything: all that other stuff on the power strip that you had running; all this stuff that you don't need. When you make a list of all the stuff that you really need ON when you leave the house, there are not many things. Say, if you have automatic sprinklers for your lawn, you have a fax machine, and an answering machine. So, you've got 6 or 7 things perhaps, things with clocks for example, maybe 10 -12 things in your house that mustn't be subject to the risk of being turned off. You don't need to have your TV 'instant ON' right away so that it can come on just the second that you press that button. It's using a lot of power. It will certainly be available to you 'instant ON' by the time you walk into the house and touch the button on your way into the house, and hours later by the time you make it into bedroom, it becomes an 'Instant ON' TV again. So, it's these sorts of green energy technologies that I am very excited about; some of the smart switch technology that's going to enable people to save a tremendous amount of energy.
