Yes
I read this account and it would seem it's going OTT.
Certainly no point in having an electric kettle under 13A with exception of for caravan use as whole idea is that it's faster than using a hot plate. As it is I can actually boil water faster on my 3.75kW induction hob than I can with the kettle but the kettle is safer than a pan and easier to pour.
I can see the point is saying a device has to meet some performance criteria so for example limit vacuum cleaner to 1600 W per 100 mm sweep size but clearly to stop the use of wider vacuums is clearly daft.
But as I have said before cleaners don't use vacuum to clean they use air velocity so banning something which does not exist is clearly pointless.
Does that mean all the robot cleaners being introduced in hospitals to stop spread of disease are now banned?
Years ago I had a hair drier which looked more like a fan heater with a pipe taking hot air to where required. Clearly this method in a hair dressers could be plumbed in similar as you can get vacuum cleaners plumbed in. It would then clearly be per outlet limit.
The limit for stand by has been fixed at one watt and nearly every TV, Video recorder, Digi-box, has reduced the stand-by to one watt except for the Sky box. How they get around the rules I don't know but they do.
We have been told all fridges and freezers must be A+ or better now. Try finding any absorption fridge or peltier fridge which will meet the A+ rating. My Woolworths 4 litre fridge uses as much power as my 391 litre fridge/freezer and you can still buy the same one from Argos. A 35 litre peltier effect on manufactures data used 3285 kWh/annum. A absorption fridge 60 litre, and manufacturers data says 110 watt and 1.9 kWh per day which relates to a massive 693 kWh/annum designed for a caravan triple fuel gas, 12vdc or 230vac but all the papers say unless A+ energy rating these are banned but they are still freely available.
If the ban was enforced then caravans will need generators running all the time and not sure how compressor fridges will work while being towed.
Lawn mowers used on school playing fields are normally around the 30kW with massive cut width so with this cut width would have to come into the equation and also speed. I would say they do around 10 mph when cutting clearly can't be pedestrian controlled.
Which produces the most CO2 a cow or a lawn mower?
