On Friday, 20 May 2016 12:43:16 UTC+1, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
On 20/05/16 11:35, dennis@home wrote:
On 19/05/2016 22:49, Steve Walker wrote:

But some will put the kettle on immediately, some will nip to the toilet
first, etc. so the demand is spread through the ad break. Lower the
power, so they take longer to boil, and you'll just end up with a point
where the early ones are still on and the late ones have turned on,
possibly giving an even bigger peak load.


What will happen is that people with small families will put less water
in so it boils before the end of the ads.
People with bigger families will curse and buy two kettles.

And engineers will buy the 3KW 'Industrial turbo heater' element that is
designed for 'melting solder' but fits the Euro Standard kettle by the
removal of just 6 screws.

It will spark widespread public discussion, and thus the reality that you could use 4kW elements without overheating anything will emerge into popular awareness. Not just engineers but many others will buy Chinese 4kW elements of dubious safety, they will be installed fairly widespreadly. A percentage will push it with 5 or 6kW. House fires will increase, and insurance premiums & deaths from fire & shock. They might reach such popularity that no peak power saving occurs.

Kettle prices will triple: all new kettles will require stamps of approval, testing, policing etc. Then you pay for the replacement element which is manufactured to 3rd world standards.


And they Greens will campaign for the elimination of all electrical
appliances except Natalie Bennett's curling tongs, hair dryer and
smoothing iron.


IN the end nothing will change except that the Green party will get more
EU grants, EU based manufacturers will make more money, a few people
will get prosecuted,

Basic justice will take yet another retrograde step. Politicos will hail it all as a win.


and the rest of the population will end up a little
bit poorer., giving Lefty****s yet another excuse to say 'its
capitalism's fault' when in fact without a lefty**** EU, it would never
have happened at all...


NT