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Electricity North West says plans to lower its =?iso-8859-1?Q?vol?==?iso-8859-1?Q?tage_could_cut_emissions_by_10%_and_save?==?is o-8859-1?Q?_customers_=A360_a_year?=
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:46:37 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote:
Are you basing your assessment on the silly newspaper story that implied they were helping their customers to use less electricity and thereby save money? That story is nonsense. The story isn't nonsense, its a real proposal apparently backed by results from trials. Not sure why people are rubbishing the idea based on some hand waving arguments. |
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Electricity North West says plans to lower its voltage could cut emissions by 10% and save customers =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=A360?= a year
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On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:46:37 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: Are you basing your assessment on the silly newspaper story that implied they were helping their customers to use less electricity and thereby save money? That story is nonsense. The story isn't nonsense, its a real proposal apparently backed by results from trials. Not sure why people are rubbishing the idea based on some hand waving arguments. The proposal is real. The newspaper article did not represent it very well. -- Roger Hayter |
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On Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:07:13 UTC, mechanic wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:46:37 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: Are you basing your assessment on the silly newspaper story that implied they were helping their customers to use less electricity and thereby save money? That story is nonsense. The story isn't nonsense, its a real proposal apparently backed by results from trials. only a complete nonscientist would think such trial of any value Not sure why people are rubbishing the idea because it's a pile of silly bs |
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On 29/10/2019 20:07, mechanic wrote:
On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:46:37 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: Are you basing your assessment on the silly newspaper story that implied they were helping their customers to use less electricity and thereby save money? That story is nonsense. The story isn't nonsense, its a real proposal apparently backed by results from trials. Not sure why people are rubbishing the idea based on some hand waving arguments. Largely because it's utter ********? But in these woke days,. totally in line with all the other non working solutions to imaginary problems that bureaucrats amuse themselves with and justify their existence by. -- The biggest threat to humanity comes from socialism, which has utterly diverted our attention away from what really matters to our existential survival, to indulging in navel gazing and faux moral investigations into what the world ought to be, whilst we fail utterly to deal with what it actually is. |
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On Wednesday, 30 October 2019 10:11:59 UTC, David Wade wrote:
On 30/10/2019 02:38, tabbypurr wrote: On Tuesday, 29 October 2019 20:07:13 UTC, mechanic wrote: On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:46:37 +0000, Roger Hayter wrote: Are you basing your assessment on the silly newspaper story that implied they were helping their customers to use less electricity and thereby save money? That story is nonsense. The story isn't nonsense, its a real proposal apparently backed by results from trials. only a complete nonscientist would think such trial of any value Not sure why people are rubbishing the idea because it's a pile of silly bs These days, for most consumers, its simply not true. The things that use the most amount of electricity in the home are things that get hot. So hair dryers, electric irons, kettles and toasters. Foe most of these reducing the voltage by 10% simply means they take 10% longer to do their job and so use the same amount of electricity. Worst case is something like a hair dryer. 10% less heat, 10% slower blower, pants. You might argue that say the iron is an exception, because ironing takes the same amount of time, but no, it has a thermostat, and it will take 10% longer to get back to temp when it kicks in. Same with an electric oven or immersion heater. Much of the low power stuff so PC's, Phone Chargers, Flat Panel TVs have what are called Switched Mode PSU's. These adjust the amount of power they take to match the load. The same with quality LED bulbs. The only paper I could find on this is in the internet archive (you will have to patch the URL) which looks at how much extra it costs for a 5% over voltage.. https://web.archive.org/web/20080824.../PaperID77.pdf which says in Australia Heating, cooking, and hot water would make up three quarters of energy used in this type of domestic installation and should cost no extra if thermostatically controlled. Dave FWIW 10% lower V means 10% lower I and 20% lower P for a heating device. It therefore takes longer to get upto temp, losing more heat & using more energy. NT |
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