On 29/08/2014 19:04, Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
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Capitol wrote:
Dave Plowman (News) wrote:
In ,
Tim wrote:
Maybe the manufacturer could have stockpiled better, but the root cause
is the EU being dicks. And no amount of debate is likely to change my
mind on the issue. But you are welcome to try.

Sensible types will wait for the latest more efficient makes to come on
stream - or buy one which already meets the spec. But of course that
wouldn't give people anything to moan about.


Sensible types will simply buy an industrial version where the new
unnecessary rules don't apply.

If you must have an inefficient device, yes. Do you throw your money away
on other things too?

Though the additional energy cost for eg a 1.8kw vs 1.5kw device, 30
mins/week, is only a quid or two a year. 8 Kwh or so. Say 150 million
households, that's 1200 gwh/year in the EU.

I think the more important part of the new rules is preventing the
escalation of power consumption, which has definitely been happening.
Many examples of how older devices consumed less have been mentioned in
this thread. It's also been fairly obvious that manufacturers have been
pushing the higher power consumption as a good thing - bigger numbers
must be better, right, and they have been prominently displayed. Without
regulation to check this, I think the average power of these devices
would have continued to rise.

Of course what would have been better all-round would have been for
these regs to have been introduced a few years ago, before higher power
ones became popular. That way none of the problems we've seen would have
happened.