On Wed, 04 Jul 2007 11:05:44 +0100, "Dave Plowman (News)"
wrote:

A 1000 watt kettle would take forever to boil. UK ones are normally
2500/3000 watts.


If you paid California electric rates, you wouldn't use it very many
times a year.

It must be nice to be able to build everything higher output, more
consumptive. We have to conserve here. Miniaturize.

What types of appliances get used in Japan? High wattage? Low?
Other places?