Watt a Waste

[watervole]

Nice little article in the Independent today about the amount of electricity we use in the home. The woman in the article used a gadget called a Watson which basically appears to be a slightly more flash version of the gadget I bought at Maplin. Except that my gadget cost less than twenty quid and hers cost around £300.

As always, it's interesting to see what the electricity-guzzling items were.


http://news.independent.co.uk/environment/article2163187.ece

Comments

[johnrw.livejournal.com]

Thw Wattson is a very fancy gadget! but I thought she was fairly lucky in her vacuum cleaner. 400 watts isn't that bad, and it's only uded for a few minutes at a time - especially as there are cleaners which boast 1800 watts of suction! switch on and watch the lights dim!

We've been looking at washing machines and checking their efficiency credentials there's better than a factor of four difference between the best and the rest (sometimes from the same manufacturer!).

In all honesty the economics of energy efficient gadgetry is changing, that means the economics of micro generation, wind turbines etc ought to be kept under review.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

And it's sad, but the part of me that is forever frivolous looked at the list and thought "Ironing is Bad!! Not Ironing is Good for the Planet!! Yay!!!"

But then I'm genetically predisposed to loathe ironing...

We turn stuff off religiously (the saving in electricity by simply remembering the lights is amazing. The new airconditioning is gonna be a tad draining, but we did shop for the most energy and water-efficient...

[watervole.livejournal.com]

And it's sad, but the part of me that is forever frivolous looked at the list and thought "Ironing is Bad!! Not Ironing is Good for the Planet!! Yay!!!"

I just buy clothes that don't need ironing and don't worry about things that are a tiny bit crumpled (they get that way anyway when you've worn them for an hour.) I only iron skirts and they can be worn for several weeks before they need washing again. If you peg shirts properly on the line, then they don't need ironing at all.

We turn stuff off religiously (the saving in electricity by simply remembering the lights is amazing.

Have a gold star!

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

I have to admit that when I'm shopping, my second thought is "do I like it and does it like me?" - the first is always "does it need ironing???"

Now I can do so with a warm feeling of self-righteousness :)

[the-magician.livejournal.com]

I'm sure I have an iron somewhere ... :-) (yes, obviously I have more than one, it's me, remember! Though I think I gave away my second ironing board ...)

And ditto the vaccuum cleaner (doesn't get used as often as it should ... but at least I found the bags for the little one last week so I can use that again!)

And yes, shirts taken straight from the washing machine (wet and warm) and put on the line properly don't really need ironing for most occasions.

[watervole.livejournal.com]

And yes, shirts taken straight from the washing machine (wet and warm) and put on the line properly don't really need ironing for most occasions.

You can have a gold star too! (washing lines beat tumble dryers hands down when it comes to saving electricity)