On 12/05/16 10:51, Brian Gaff wrote:
Actually those advocating leaving the EU will not find that this stops this
kind of thing either, as in order to sell in the EU products will have to
comply and hence still be lower powered just the same, and of course as
China is the main source for toaster innards these days, the whole world
will get the same problem except where they are using a different mains
voltage of course.

Look: back in the day MGBS destined for the US market had air pumps to
add air to the exhausts to lower the ratio of CO* etc etc.

They were not fitted to UK models


As for self toasting toast. I thin this has been tried before and was
considered a bit of a failure due to it bursting into flames or tasting like
cardboard.

But toast tastes like cardboard anyway, if the bread is made by the
'chorley' method

brian


*But not of course the total amount emitted. A test of that nature would
have invalidated every V8 in the USA...

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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen