http://blog.opower.com/2013/01/will-the-super-bowl-save-the-planet-how-americas-most-watched-tv-event-reduces-home-energy-usage/ Blogs Sun, 19 May 2013 03:25:40 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://blog.opower.com/2013/01/will-the-super-bowl-save-the-planet-how-americas-most-watched-tv-event-reduces-home-energy-usage/#comment-4228 Eric Sandeen Fri, 01 Feb 2013 05:12:00 +0000 http://blog.opower.com/?p=3709#comment-4228 It'd be interesting to know if people "make up the difference" in subsequent days. Any idea? Was laundry just deferred for a day or two - is there any actual net effect? Did the cooking energy just shift to the pizza place? That one might be harder to answer... It’d be interesting to know if people “make up the difference” in subsequent days. Any idea? Was laundry just deferred for a day or two – is there any actual net effect? Did the cooking energy just shift to the pizza place? That one might be harder to answer…

]]> http://blog.opower.com/2013/01/will-the-super-bowl-save-the-planet-how-americas-most-watched-tv-event-reduces-home-energy-usage/#comment-4038 Anonymous Mon, 28 Jan 2013 18:03:00 +0000 http://blog.opower.com/?p=3709#comment-4038 Hey David- A totally valid point, and well taken. The killer combination is TV-Pooling + Car-Pooling (or ideally traveling to your communal TV without using fossil-fuel powered transportation at all). Thanks for the comment. Hey David- A totally valid point, and well taken. The killer combination is TV-Pooling + Car-Pooling (or ideally traveling to your communal TV without using fossil-fuel powered transportation at all). Thanks for the comment.

]]> http://blog.opower.com/2013/01/will-the-super-bowl-save-the-planet-how-americas-most-watched-tv-event-reduces-home-energy-usage/#comment-4037 David Mon, 28 Jan 2013 13:34:00 +0000 http://blog.opower.com/?p=3709#comment-4037 "Communal TV viewing may at first seem like a trivial concept, but its effect on a country’s residential energy consumption could be significant". Not if people drive to the communal TV. That extra fuel usage would completely swamp any decrease in electricity. “Communal TV viewing may at first seem like a trivial concept, but its effect on a country’s residential energy consumption could be significant”. Not if people drive to the communal TV. That extra fuel usage would completely swamp any decrease in electricity.

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