Empowering the Environmentalist Within

Well Christmas has just finished and I have a fairly green family so alot of our gifts we tech-ie little green toys so I thought I’d share some with you:

Eco-Kettle: Boils only the water you need to use. You don’t to buy one of these to do this but this did make it easy to do it. The idea is that raising 1 litre of water by 100 degrees takes a set ammount of energy (more or less). Raising the temperature of 2 litlres takes double. You get the point the more water you boil the more energy it takes. Now most of the time, and I did it too you boil a full jug and pour out only the cup you need. If you had just boiled that one cup then you would have saved a large ammount of power. The Ecokettle makes it a bit easier by giving you a water resiourie that doesn’t boil, so you don’t have to fill it up constantly.

USBCell Battery: I’m not sure if these qualify as green, but rechargable batteries are better than disposable and these definately make it very easy to charge batteries where you are so I think it does. You simple take the cap off the battery and plug it into any USB socket and it charges it. Very cool. Unfortunately for us here in Australia, they are a UK company and not out here yet so I had to jump on amazon and get them sent over.