"Bob Eager" wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jan 2009 14:25:12 UTC, Bruce wrote:

Peter Parry wrote:
On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:29:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

vbleau wrote:

Does anyone have experience of a new electric aga - the ordinary 13
amp one, not the night storage one?
I have heard mixed reports on their reliability.

[snip]

The average fuel aga runs at about 600W-1kw 24x7., If that's OK on your
bills, it should be fine..

The 4 oven electric Aga averages 1,600W/hr continuously (270kW a
week) according to Aga. By buying a £300 add on timer (Aga
Intelligent Management System) this can be reduced to about 1,300W/hr
or a mere 11.4 MWh per year at a cost of about £1,100.

Apart from the cost, I wonder how much carbon dioxide is emitted?

None at all by the Aga! :-)

And possibly none at all at all, if it's powered from nukular...


It seems a bit excessive to have a new nuclear power station built
specially to power an Aga. I knew they were incredibly inefficient and
environmentally unfriendly, but are they really that bad? ;-)

In the meantime, the Aga will have to draw its power from the National
Grid. Approximately 80% of the power from the Grid is generated by
fossil fuels (gas and coal) so I repeat, I wonder how much carbon
dioxide is emitted?


[I suppose you are one of those people who think that using an electric
car emits zero carbon!]