How To Monitor Personal Energy Consumption

Tom Coates at his weblog, plasticbag.org puts his latest personal obsession--monitoring how much electricity his lifestyle soaks up--under scrutiny. This inevitably results in the purchase of more things.

I'm noticing an increasing instinct in my own life towards trying to capture and track as much information about what I'm doing or what I have done as possible - and to be able to get it out somewhere on the internet where I might be able to do things with it.

On Wattson and Electrisave [Plasticbag.org]