On Sun, 23 Oct 2005 05:05:27 GMT, AZ Nomad wrote:

On Sat, 22 Oct 2005 08:17:52 +0100, Tim S Kemp wrote:


Arny Krueger wrote:

Most kettles are relatively low-powered compared to the
appliances that are heavy-hitters.

In the US self-heated kettles are far from the largest
single users of power. Electric space heaters are near or at
the top.

Have you ever been to the UK?

My kettle is 3.2kw. My shower is 10.5 Kw. Heating here is done mostly with
gas (as in natural gas, not petrol) or oil (kerosene / diesel)

If the US wasted less power in electric space heaters maybe the world would
be a better place?

Maybe if the UK didn't have people using 4 times the power of a space heater
to operate a shower, the world would be an even better place.

Power is irrelevant to the question. Energy is what matters, which is power
integrated over time. Using a 10kW shower for three minutes pales into
insignificance beside any kind of space heater running for hours. The same
goes for the kettle, which boils the water in a couple of minutes.

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