Next EU Meddling Target: Vacuum Cleaners
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BBC News Article
Seriously flawed logic here, a more powerful vacuum cleaner does the job more quickly, so won't be running for as long. Is there anything in our day-to-day lives that the EU doesn't want to meddle with? Thankfully I have a 2200 watt Miele with 9 years of warranty left, so I can give Brussels the finger well into the next decade.
Seriously flawed logic here, a more powerful vacuum cleaner does the job more quickly, so won't be running for as long. Is there anything in our day-to-day lives that the EU doesn't want to meddle with? Thankfully I have a 2200 watt Miele with 9 years of warranty left, so I can give Brussels the finger well into the next decade.
tty Dyson!
I was expecting a daily mash or newsthump link.
currybum said:
Maybe the engineers will need to start making the things more efficient at turning motor power in to suction rather than just chucking in a bigger motor.
I don't think it's just my Hitachi (2100W) which has a variable power control. It's very efficient and bagless. Most of the time I leave it at 50%, unless I want a bit more juice then I turn it up. Now the point is, I make that decision, not some meddling twunt from Brussels. currybum said:
Maybe the engineers will need to start making the things more efficient at turning motor power in to suction rather than just chucking in a bigger motor.
Some fag paper calculations, say there are 375 million (one for each house hold and 0.5 again for each business) vacuum cleaners in the EU. With 20% being above 2KW so you have a total of 75million cleaners using at least 400w less.
Assume each cleaner is used for an average of 2 hours a week so 104 hours a year, each affected hover saves 42kwh of electricity a year, a total of 3.15 billion kwh or energy saved. Or about the same to replace this 1600acre solar power plant
When you have populations in the hundreds of millions small changes really do make a decent sized impact.
2 hours a week? 20 minutes a month. Some fag paper calculations, say there are 375 million (one for each house hold and 0.5 again for each business) vacuum cleaners in the EU. With 20% being above 2KW so you have a total of 75million cleaners using at least 400w less.
Assume each cleaner is used for an average of 2 hours a week so 104 hours a year, each affected hover saves 42kwh of electricity a year, a total of 3.15 billion kwh or energy saved. Or about the same to replace this 1600acre solar power plant
When you have populations in the hundreds of millions small changes really do make a decent sized impact.
Krikkit said:
currybum said:
Maybe the engineers will need to start making the things more efficient at turning motor power in to suction rather than just chucking in a bigger motor.
Some fag paper calculations, say there are 375 million (one for each house hold and 0.5 again for each business) vacuum cleaners in the EU. With 20% being above 2KW so you have a total of 75million cleaners using at least 400w less.
Assume each cleaner is used for an average of 2 hours a week so 104 hours a year, each affected hover saves 42kwh of electricity a year, a total of 3.15 billion kwh or energy saved. Or about the same to replace this 1600acre solar power plant
When you have populations in the hundreds of millions small changes really do make a decent sized impact.
2 hours a week? 20 minutes a month. Some fag paper calculations, say there are 375 million (one for each house hold and 0.5 again for each business) vacuum cleaners in the EU. With 20% being above 2KW so you have a total of 75million cleaners using at least 400w less.
Assume each cleaner is used for an average of 2 hours a week so 104 hours a year, each affected hover saves 42kwh of electricity a year, a total of 3.15 billion kwh or energy saved. Or about the same to replace this 1600acre solar power plant
When you have populations in the hundreds of millions small changes really do make a decent sized impact.
It would be more sensible for the EU to outlaw OCD.
oyster said:
currybum said:
fido said:
not some meddling twunt from Brussels.
Sometimes its like a Dailymail reader / UKIP swingers party in here.
That's different though, as it would be a meddling twunt in Westminster, and we have more of a chance of putting them out of a job than unelected meddling twunts of the EU variety.
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