I guess @21C101 can go back to using 100W incandescent bulbs too, rather than 12W LED bulbs that give just as much light and last ten times as long.
True. Oh for the Halcyon days of £1=$2.50...
But you do realise that what the EU has done is that they've forced the producers of such equipment to produce just as powerful machines that use less power?
I'm in good company.
www.telegraph.co.uk
Er..what do you want? A medal?I'm in good company.
"James Dyson suggests leaving the EU over vacuum cleaners
Dyson founder claims that German vacuum cleaner manufacturers are using their clout with the EU to skew the energy efficiency ratings system in their favour.."
James Dyson suggests leaving the EU over vacuum cleaners
Dyson founder claims that German vacuum cleaner manufacturers are using their clout with the EU to skew the energy efficiency ratings system in their favour
Would that be the same James Dyson who's b****ed off to Singapore since Brexit?
Yes the very same! Another prominent Brexit supporter jumping ship.
Not with a cut from 2400W to 900W trying to pick up dog hairs and the like from carpets.
There is a really good reason why the EU stepped in on vacuum cleaners as it started to become all about wattages and not about actual cleaning performance. Cleaners were being built with stupidly high wattages primarily due to stupid bagless designs that either wasted a lot of airflow on multiple cyclones or needed the extra power as the dust separation was so poor that the filters clogged near instantly.
Vacuums only really started having 1000w+ motors in the late 80's and even then it was generally only cylinder vacuums that had the extra power as they generally had no assistance from a rotating brush roll for carpets.
A modern Henry/Hetty with it's 620w motor compared to the previous 1.2kW motor has very little difference in suction as they've done more than just fit a lower wattage motor, plus if you really wanted a 1.2kW model then there are plenty on the 2nd hand market that will last for years. My Gran's 800W Henry is from 1987 and yet not only still works fine it also has more than enough suction power.
Personally a vacuum such as an 620W Henry (for primarily hard floor, thin carpet, or carpet where a rotating brush roll is not recommended) or for carpets a SEBO Felix (700w suction + 120w? for the ET-1 powerhead) will probably clean better than any 1kW+ vacuum, esp. if it a far eastern bagless one.
Like I said you had better get BoJo to recommission those power plants taken off the grid or build new ones very very quickly as if the UK suddenly starts using more energy intensive equipment in households around the country you will probably end up with power cuts. The grid has a small amount of reserves but not enough for mass usage of high wattage appliances suddenly being plugged in.
Is this just error-ridden piffle like most of your posts, or are you acknowledging that the vast majority of the 60-odd million in the UK have no influence over choice of government? From which it follows that any decisions of the British government have no democratic legitimacy. And I don't see that a government that caves in to lobby groups is particularly democratic either.
The Queen felt unable to reject the advice to prorogue Parliament, despite it being obvious to everyone (and even admitted afterwards by the perpetrators) that she was being lied to and the actual reason was to suppress debate on Brexit. This shows that the royal prerogative has eroded to irrelevance through lack of use. When the Supreme Court stopped the progrogation, our government pronounced it undemocratic and inserted into its manifesto a commitment that they probably hope will allow them to curtail its powers without objection from the Lords (made feeble by its own undemocratic nature). You may think it's good to dismantle the remaining checks and balances to allow "serious and drastic reform" to take place. I call it a dangerous path towards dictatorship.
Funnily enough the country is still festooned with 3kW kettles. Junckers had the common sense to suspend plans to do the same to kettles as they did to Vacuum Cleaners once the referendum was announced.
All MPs face an electorate of about 60,000 people. It's called a constituency.
Suction is not the main factor in the removal of dog hairs, a good brushroll is and that is why most cylinder vacuums are not very good at it even with tonnes of power.
It's not just what is happening now in EU but the future direction of travel. Many people don't like the idea of the mooted European army. Who calls the shots-generally its been Germany with the French poodles sucking up. The smaller nations in EU don't really count for much in decision making as Germany has bought them off by investing in car plants to do the donkey work while the clever bits are done in Germany, so they go along with Germany. The power in an empire rarely resides in its extremities, nearly always near its centre. Just to clarify, I like the Germans, it's a lovely country, but I want to have some semblance of say in what happens in UK, Brussels is a law unto itself and full of very greedy troughers.
Mine is quite capable of clearing dog hairs from awkward to get to places like the stair carpets without any attachment or brush strip, just rubbing the unattached end over it. I don't have to spend ages dehairing rotating brush strips either.
Your average fast boil 3Kw kettle is on load for 2mins max depending on the amount of water to heat up. Your 2Kw vacuums are going to be on load for a good deal longer than that. And on battery charging it’s a very very simple bit of maths to work out how much less impact on the grid they have. Even a MacBook charger is only 61W. So you would need 32 MacBooks charging at once in your house to match the power consumption of your vacuum cleaner. Most household battery charging equipment is far far less than that wattage. So if millions of households suddenly want their high wattage vacuum cleaners back again the grid is going to need more juice again. How the UK will meet the Paris climate agreement pledges with that I don’t know. Especially when BoJo wants loads of electric vehicles charging on the grid as well. I think your high power vacuum cleaners might slip down the priority list unless you do want power cuts.
The thing I don't get is that nobody has ever promised to change regulations in the UK so that previously prohibited, less effective, and less energy efficient lighting or vacuum cleaners will be once again permitted. Indeed, it's quite likely that the government will continue to advance these regulations.
What EU army?
A 3kW kettle is actually more efficient than a lower-powered one. It boils water more quickly (which is also what people want) so less heat is lost during the process. So it's entirely logical for a kettle to have the highest power rating that the domestic supply can support.
And now we are no longer a member of the EU, we have virtually no influence on what they do. But we are still affected by it, however much sovereignty we think we have gained.
That is an absurd argument. I have a 2kW heater in my sons bedroom which is on for longer than any any vacuum cleaner ever will be. I can buy a 3kW greenhouse heater for about £50 and use it all winter (got better things to do with my money but plenty others do). Somehow the national grid copes.
Surely this doesn't seem a terribly realistic expectation though? This is from a party government that recently introduced "micromanagement" ofeverything from plastic bags to soft drinks. You'll note neither were to do with the EU...
Brexit is the enabler, an essential prerequisite to enable this process to begin. It will take a long time.
