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Archive Home > 2009 > September > 20 > Plugged-in age feeds a hunger for electricity

Plugged-in age feeds a hunger for electricity

By Jad Mouawad and Kate Galbraith / The Bulletin
September 20, 2009

With two laptop-loving children and a Jack Russell terrier hemmed in by an electric fence, Peter Troast figured his household used a lot of power. Just how much power did not really hit him until the night the family turned off the overhead lights at their home in Maine and began hunting gadgets....

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