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Arfa Daily wrote:
... if we've now got to start shaving a few watts off the motor of an
appliance that these days is probably used no more than 15 minutes a week,
in order to save power. I refer of course to the new vacuum cleaner motor
power directive from our chums at the EU ...

I've always thought vacuum cleaners must be ridiculously inefficient.
How much power do you think you could get out of the airflow? I'd be
surprised if it's more than a few tens of watts.

-- Richard