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Cost of boiling water in kettle vs gas hob
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Sea_Shell said:coffeehound said:DeletedUser said:
An experiment dropping a bowling ball and some feathers at the same time, and they fall at the same rate!!
Mind Blown!!!!
Do Gas prices rise faster in a vacuum?
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Grizzlebeard said:Sea_Shell said:coffeehound said:DeletedUser said:
An experiment dropping a bowling ball and some feathers at the same time, and they fall at the same rate!!
Mind Blown!!!!
Do Gas prices rise faster in a vacuum?Apollo 15 did it first back in 1971..... :-)
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Ok my take on this using today's Octopus daily rates is that it's very very slightly cheaper to use a kettle for one mug.
My 2.8kw/h kettle takes 47 secs to boil one mug, and a pan takes 210 seconds..
Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)
Gas useage was worked out by using a before and after meter reading and by using the convoluted calculation to work out kw/h used.
Gas Hob: 0.163 kw/h used @ 0.0609ppu = 0.0099p (per mug).
Ok you're putting heat into the house, but two and a half minutes isn't going to make that much difference. You pays your money and takes your choice as they say but using a pan means that if you drink 10 mugs of tea a day you've wasted nearly 20 minutes of that day waiting for your pan to boil and as we all know a watched pan never boils...3 -
JackRaygun said:Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)
Gas Hob: 0.163 kw/h used @ 0.0609ppu = 0.0099p (per mug).
But thanks for the experiment, we're all a tiny bit wiser!
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QrizB said:JackRaygun said:Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)
Gas Hob: 0.163 kw/h used @ 0.0609ppu = 0.0099p (per mug).
But thanks for the experiment, we're all a tiny bit wiser!0 -
JackRaygun said:Ok my take on this using today's Octopus daily rates is that it's very very slightly cheaper to use a kettle for one mug.
My 2.8kw/h kettle takes 47 secs to boil one mug, and a pan takes 210 seconds..
Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)0 -
coffeehound said:JackRaygun said:Ok my take on this using today's Octopus daily rates is that it's very very slightly cheaper to use a kettle for one mug.
My 2.8kw/h kettle takes 47 secs to boil one mug, and a pan takes 210 seconds..
Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)0 -
JackRaygun said:coffeehound said:JackRaygun said:Ok my take on this using today's Octopus daily rates is that it's very very slightly cheaper to use a kettle for one mug.
My 2.8kw/h kettle takes 47 secs to boil one mug, and a pan takes 210 seconds..
Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)1 -
JackRaygun said:coffeehound said:JackRaygun said:Ok my take on this using today's Octopus daily rates is that it's very very slightly cheaper to use a kettle for one mug.
My 2.8kw/h kettle takes 47 secs to boil one mug, and a pan takes 210 seconds..
Kettle: 2.8kw/h @ 47 secs = 0.036kw/h which at 25.43ppu = 0.0091p (per mug)
(An electric blanket rated @ 150W on the label, once warmed up, and for energy calculations, may only draw an average of 20W.)
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