Ideally, anything with an AC plug should be able to respond with its energy consumption in active and non-active states. That would permit other attributes such as heat output, carbon emission, or load shedding to be estimated. BTW, most people are unaware that they're 120W heaters... Kerry On Thu, Jan 28, 2016 at 4:59 AM, Carsten Bormann <cabo@tzi.org> wrote: > I think we have had enough discussion about the difference between heaters > and things that generate heat. > > What my initial comment really was about was that things may have physical > properties that allow to give them new purposes, purposes that the original > manufacturer/buyer/installer of the thing did not foresee. So for some > applications it may be useful to know not only the original purpose and the > high-level properties of the thing that relate to that, but also those > basic physical properties in a more malleable form. > > Grüße, Carsten > > > _______________________________________________ > T2TRG mailing list > T2TRG@irtf.org > https://www.irtf.org/mailman/listinfo/t2trg > >
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