On 20 Jan, 16:17, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
Bruce wrote:
"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?

Well; e can look forward to the first pebble bed reactor aga probably.

"Top up with any old radioactive **** once a year, heat your house and
generate your electricity, too.
"
:-)

Well, perhaps the OP should go off to the Kola peninsula to find one
of the abandoned RTGs (radiothermal generators) there. The Gorn (1100
Watt), Senostav (1870 Watt) or IEU-1M (2200 Watt) should keep the Aga
up to temperature, and you get some free electricity thrown in as
well.

http://www.bellona.no/bellona.org/en...ncidents/37598

There's the minor problem of the Strontium-90 and decay products, but
I'm sure the local council would set up a recycling scheme before too
long.

Sid.