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		aj700 on Jan 7, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Power surges in Britain caused by millions of peop... You can monitor the UK National Grid inputs and transfers, sales, demand etc. in almost real time here http://www.bmreports.com/bsp/bsp.php You need flash, I've never got this page to work in Chrome, but it works in Firefox

tomd on Jan 7, 2013 [–]

I wrote a slightly frivolous one-page app which scrapes National Grid frequency data:

http://www.caniturniton.com/

Someone used its API (/api/json) to make a load-sensitive kettle:

http://elsmorian.com/Projects/CarbonKettle

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