Power Saving Vacuum Cleaners

[oobers]

Yeah, and ban irons and ironing. What a pointless activity. What could we use all the redundant ironing boards for after the ban?

[RenewableCandy]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p13yZAjhU0M

[Tarrel]

I don't even use hot air driers in public loos. Just let the hands air-dry. It takes seconds. Sadly the days of having enough hair to warrant a hair-dryer are long gone!

Could do with a low-energy way of drying my mushrooms though. It's one of life's ironies that the mushrooms are ready for picking / drying well before we've lit the Rayburn (which is an ideal drying tool).

[emordnilap]

Just, ban leaf blowers.

+1

Oh, and jet skis.

[Lurkalot]

Google leaf blowers are evil and this is the first result closely followed by a couple of Facebook pages
http://digbyhall120.wordpress.com/2013/ ... l-verdict/

[emordnilap]

Hot air:

There are already calls to drop the bans from the National Hairdressers' Federation (NHF), which is urging the EU to reconsider saying its "ill thought-out" plans. High-powered hairdryers are also on the line.

“There really is no area of our lives into which these nannying Eurocrats won’t stick their nose,” Nuttall said. “They have set an impossible energy reduction target which is pointless since other countries such as China and India are building hundreds of coal fired power plants and climate change is not man-made anyway.”

No, not The Daily Mash.

[RenewableCandy]

My hairdresser is solar powered And they don't use those massive "Alien" hair-dryers either.

[emordnilap]

While we're at it, let's ban these urinals too:



Feckin' awkward, they are.

[RenewableCandy]

If I were a bloke I wouldn't entrust my tackle to a thing like that...

[Little John]

If vacuum cleaner turn crappy due to legislation, it might turn folks back to hard flooring like lino or or vinyl which, notwithstanding the rather unfortunate carbon footprint of vinyl, is no bad thing. Carpets are manky reservoirs of filth.

[emordnilap]

Linoleum (or Marmoleum, made in Scotland) is great stuff. Who needs petroleum?

[RenewableCandy]

If vacuum cleaner turn crappy due to legislation, it might turn folks back to hard flooring like lino or or vinyl which, notwithstanding the rather unfortunate carbon footprint of vinyl, is no bad thing. Carpets are manky reservoirs of filth.

Point. Continental types aren't fond of carpets anyway. Also (tries to remember if it was PS where I erad this...) they're a pain at recycling/rubbish-processing places because they're almost impossible to cut up mechanically.

[Little John]

Linoleum (or Marmoleum, made in Scotland) is great stuff. Who needs petroleum?

Given that linoleum is made from from linseed, fine sawdust and jute; all of which will have been farmed industrially and given its requirement to be re-linseed-oiled every few years, as compared to high quality vinyl which, although it has a high carbon footprint in its production, is thereafter more or less indestructible and requires no further treatments throughout its life, I wonder whether a carbon footprint comparison of the two might yield a counter intuitive answer. Even more so, perhaps, when the fact of vinyl being a thermoplastic and so re-meltable (in other words, recyclable for other products) is taken into account.

[PS_RalphW]

Vinyl is remeltable, and every time I spill hot fat on it, it melts a new hole, which is usually the reason it gets ripped up and replaced each time the food prep area is remodelled.

[emordnilap]

Linoleum (or Marmoleum, made in Scotland) is great stuff. Who needs petroleum?

Given that linoleum is made from from linseed, fine sawdust and jute; all of which will have been farmed industrially

Well, not necessarily. I take your point of course. Ultimately though, linoleum earns the dreaded 's' word.