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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Sir Tigger KC on 22 August 2014, 13:42:34
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
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They come out with this shite to inconvenience a huge number of consumers/manufacturers and manage to save a minuscule amount of energy, therefore greenhouse gases.
I watched a programme called "Should I eat meat?" the other night. The emissions from all the worlds meat production equals the emissions from all the worlds vehicles. So, if we can convince fat Americans to reduce the average 70 kilos of meat they eat each year, say down to 40, which Europeans eat, we'll cut far more emissions than effing about with hoovers.
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
Got something to say, you? ;D
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They come out with this shite to inconvenience a huge number of consumers/manufacturers and manage to save a minuscule amount of energy, therefore greenhouse gases.
I watched a programme called "Should I eat meat?" the other night. The emissions from all the worlds meat production equals the emissions from all the worlds vehicles. So, if we can convince fat Americans to reduce the average 70 kilos of meat they eat each year, say down to 40, which Europeans eat, we'll cut far more emissions than effing about with hoovers.
In fact , if your vacuum is less powerful, you'll need to have it on longer.....so use the same energy. Doh!
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So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
Yes, yes, yes and yes.. probably.
You forgot dishwashers and microwaves..
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We have an arthritic Dyson DC01. Incredibly noisy, probably because we have run it without filters for the last decade or so. ;D
No idea of the power output.
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
.......preferably powered by a 440 cubic inch Detroit V8. :)
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OR it could be a wake up call to the manufacturers to make more efficient vacuum cleaners that use less electric?
Bit like how cars use less fuel now than they did per mile in the seventies. Nowt wrong with that.
PS my mother still uses(from preference) her mothers upright Hoover. It is at least 65 years old. The lights in the street dim when she switches it on with the circuit breaker
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What a load of rollicks next they will be banning electric cars for the same reason ::) ::) then again that's not a bad idea. ;D ;D ;D :-X
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Recently there was an idiot MP claiming that middle class people are contributing to climate change with their chest freezers. they typically use 300-400kw a year. >:( >:( >:( >:( This is the equivalent of about 10 gallons of fuel a year, so it would obviously use much less energy and produce much less plant food by dumping the freezer and driving to the shops every day to buy fresh produce. :o :o ;D ;D
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
The boffins at the eu have to come up with something to justify their salaries of £5k a week dont they ::)
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If your vacuum cleaner dont do the job well then i will have to replace the carpet more often, even more resourses.talk about a free country. Isnt it up to us how much energy we use, after all it is us who has to pay the bill. How long before electic blankets are banned. >:(
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What about irons. Mines 2200w and can be on for a lot longer than the hoover :y
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Same should apply to all appliances. Lets get the electric used down on new stuff whilst maintaining/improving the efficiency.
I can't see what the fuss is about!
It wasn't so long ago that we were warned that there isn't going to be enough electricity generated this winter without having voluntary industry cutbacks(paid for by you taxpayers). It won't be long before Germany starts paying the price for its reliance on Russian gas. meanwhile the rest of us are at the mercy of the generating companies putting their prices up by more than inflation.
Maybe the "climate change" is a smokescreen for we no longer have control over the price of our energy..............
PS leave your taps on and run the water if you aren't metered ;D ;D
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How long before electic blankets are banned. >:(
Nooooooooooooo! :o :D
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If you need a new vacuum cleaner and want a powerful one then buy one quick as soon you won't be able to buy one over 1600 watts and after 2017 vacuum cleaners will be limited to 900 watts! :o
Why? ??? Well according to the EU we're using too much electricity cleaning our homes and are causing climate change! ::) So whats next in their sights? Washing machines?, Tumble Dryers?, Lawn Mowers?, Cookers? :-\
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-28878432
Right I'm off to invent the petrol vacuum cleaner! ;D
V8 powered I trust ;)
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Oh come on - This isn't about energy consumption, this is about the EU flexing it's muscle and stopping imports from the Asian market.
They are subsidising R&D for many European manufacturers and will more than likely subsidise a marketing plan for models which have [more than likely] already been produced.
Dyson use 1300W if my memory serves.
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What worries me is that the highly paid group of ministers that have come up with this ruling clearly fail to realise that my vacuum cleaner gets used for 15 minutes whenever someone important is coming around - so average consumption is probably less than a Watt. Yet your average Sky box takes about 30 Watts day and night. ::)
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Oh, and I think I need to get a 2 stroke vacuum cleaner, just to poke them in the eye. ;D
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Who was it that allowed the inmates to run the asylum?
Ron. (That was just me signing off, NOT admitting responsibility!)
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What worries me is that the highly paid group of ministers unelected bureaucrats that have come up with this ruling clearly fail to realise that my vacuum cleaner gets used for 15 minutes whenever someone important is coming around - so average consumption is probably less than a Watt. Yet your average Sky box takes about 30 Watts day and night. ::)
Fixed that for you Kevin. :)
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I don't know why we don't just tell the EU to get stuffed, every other country does. We'll be back to hanging carpets on the washing line and beating them to clean them. ( yes I am old enough to remember it).
We have to get out of this unelected meglomainiac state that France and Germany want..
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I don't know why we don't just tell the EU to get stuffed.
I agree - It won't be an organised revolt though. The population will just continue to live as they always have and the law(s) imposed will be unenforceable.
We mostly agree on everything in the western world (murder, theft, drugs etc) but some of the red tape we all ignore anyway.
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Very slightly off topic but relevant, I think, none the less.
Is it not the EU who insist via 'rools and regs' that high viz clothing is used as much as it is now in the UK?
Anyone see such a compliance in the rest of the EU?
Thought not..... ::)
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What a load of #ollocks If the EU want to really reduce electricity consumption they should legislate against large office blocks leaving the lights on all night. I'll also wager that Britain is the has the most carpeted houses in Europe the other countries having tiled or wooden flooring, so as posted earlier it's about time Britain stuck two fingers up to the overpaid beurocrats in Brussels much like the rest of the EU member countries that don't like directives that come out of Brussels e.g Spanish trawler owners and fisheries policy but that's another story don't get be started on EU policies >:( I fell a rant coming on !!!
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Very slightly off topic but relevant, I think, none the less.
Is it not the EU who insist via 'rools and regs' that high viz clothing is used as much as it is now in the UK?
Anyone see such a compliance in the rest of the EU?
Thought not..... ::)
Ten years or so ago the EU mandarins said road deaths were very high across the EU. get them down they said to member countries. Britain chose a policy of installing shed loads of speed cameras. Spain chose among its initiatives high vis jackets mandatory for carrying in vehicles and must be used if you stop on a road and get out e.g. breakdown, puncture. I would say that is fine. I remember two OAP's getting mown down on the M1 near Leicester when their car broke down about 12 years ago.
Tony H . I agree with you about office block lights on overnight. Madness but it is OK to the business because the cost is recouped from you the customer.
I sound like I am a supporter of the EU. I am not now.
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Agree with that varche but how many yellow jackets and vests are seen in the UK on a daily basis? Every commercial driver, trolley pusher, dog walker, brush pusher, shelf stacker, plant potter, bin emptier, maccy D employee outwith the serving counter -list is, literally, endless. I say the number visable goes a long way to reducing effectiveness as well as showing sheep like compliance to EU directives that the majority of the EU ignore?
To paraphrase a saying of old.
Laws are for the guidance of fools and interpretation of the wise....
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What a load of #ollocks If the EU want to really reduce electricity consumption they should legislate against large office blocks leaving the lights on all night. I'll also wager that Britain is the has the most carpeted houses in Europe the other countries having tiled or wooden flooring, so as posted earlier it's about time Britain stuck two fingers up to the overpaid beurocrats in Brussels much like the rest of the EU member countries that don't like directives that come out of Brussels e.g Spanish trawler owners and fisheries policy but that's another story don't get be started on EU policies >:( I fell a rant coming on !!!
If they are fluorescent tubes.....it actually saves leccy/money by leaving them on all night....the start up current on these tubes are high and are only efficient when they have 'warmed up'...if the security bods kept turning them on/off every hour on their walkabouts.....they would use more leccy :y
I'll also add most security cameras inside office buildings cannot see in the dark....so theres another reason for leaving the lights on all night :y