{"id":841,"date":"2008-01-31T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2008-01-31T13:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=841"},"modified":"2008-02-01T13:50:20","modified_gmt":"2008-02-01T13:50:20","slug":"good-sense-at-last","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=841","title":{"rendered":"Good sense at Last?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s some time since I <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=503\">ranted<\/a>, and now there are calls to <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/world\/europe\/7219565.stm\">ban patio heaters<\/a>, and remove standby from TVs. This makes good sense: while that standby mode of a good, modern TV doesn&#8217;t use a bit of power, fitting a proper, hard-wired off switch is a good idea that has little downside. As for the heaters? Calor (who just happen to make the gas that fuels them!) say the effect is minimal.<\/p>\n<p>Right. Pumping several kW straight into the atmosphere for no purpose but to warm up people too lazy to wear a coat? At least the energy wastage from the TV is only a few watts. The patio heater hits things twice too: It heats the atmosphere directly, <i>and<\/i> produces unwanted emissions and wastes petroleum-based fuel doing so. If you must heat your garden, buy a Chimenea and burn some waste in it- still not good, but better.<\/p>\n<p>The emissions (in carbon terms) from patio heaters probably isn&#8217;t that high, but what an utter waste. Like shops with the heating on and the doors wide open, or heated shops with open freezers. Bet that uses more than we&#8217;ll save with <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Compact_fluorescent_lamp\">CFL<\/a> lights&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s some time since I ranted, and now there are calls to ban patio heaters, and remove standby from TVs. This makes good sense: while that standby mode of a good, modern TV doesn&#8217;t use a bit of power, fitting a proper, hard-wired off switch is a good idea that has little downside. As for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/?p=841\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Good sense at Last?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-tree-hugging-hippy-crap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/841\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.piglet-net.net\/pigblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}