Re: OT - Dragons' Den Standby Saver

On 10/08/2007 19:27, Pyriform wrote:

Yes, but it's a pretty spurious argument.

I'm not particularly arguing for it, just explaining the situation

The heating is only useful if you actually need it

I think "nospam" did originally state that would be the case for large parts of europe, for large parts of the year, how many days of the year is your central heating on?

and even then, the cost in both economic and carbon footprint terms is almost certainly higher than providing the heating through other means.

It'll be the same as for any electrical form of heating

Devices should do what they need to do as efficiently as possible. You can't make a virtue out of an unwanted side-effect.

but if there is a side effect you might as well understand it.
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