Smart appliances learning to save power grid

Iria · Nov 27, 2007, 05:27 PM

Source: MSNBC
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It’s one small delay for dry socks and underwear, one giant leap for the national power grid.

Researchers at an appliance lab that looks more like a utility room are fine-tuning washers, dryers, water heaters, refrigerators — even coffeemakers — to help ward off the type of colossal power failures that plunged much of the Northeast into darkness in 2003 and blacked out big chunks of the West in 1996.

Nov 27, 2007, 05:27 PM	#1
Iria DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Posts: 7,275 Rep Power: 89	Smart appliances learning to save power grid Source: MSNBC __________ It’s one small delay for dry socks and underwear, one giant leap for the national power grid. Researchers at an appliance lab that looks more like a utility room are fine-tuning washers, dryers, water heaters, refrigerators — even coffeemakers — to help ward off the type of colossal power failures that plunged much of the Northeast into darkness in 2003 and blacked out big chunks of the West in 1996.