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A while ago we got an ecoKettle.  It’s won awards for energy savings awards, but is it any good ?

It’s really simple to use.  You don’t need instructions to figure it out just plug it in fill it up and go.

It’s larger than a normal kettle, as it has to store more water than a normal kettle, you can fill both reservoirs if you want before starting a boil cycle.  The idea being that you fill one side and release what you need into the other as and when you want a cuppa, ideally only boiling one or two cups at a time. Of course when you have visitors you can fill it up once and get two cycles out of it.  When really full this makes the eco kettle quite heavy, but time saving.  Filled as intended and the kettle feels off balance in your hand, it’s like the top volume of water is pressing the lever of the kettle split and trying to force it down at the wrist joint.  So stronger wrists might be needed, not a pressie for your gran, unless she’s strong of course.

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Whilst I’m of the opinion that green things are generally good, like saving energy, there are some things that really don’t make much sense to me.

This is one of then http://www.earthhour.org/about.  A bunch of cities are going to turn off the lights for an hour including many businesses, here’s a quote

On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour - Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced Sydney’s energy consumption by 10.2% for one hour, which is the equivalent effect of taking 48,000 cars off the road for a year.

The turn-off time was from 8pm-9pm.

So presumably all of these businesses and cities agreed to turn off the lights, because it would not effect public safety, in the case of city infrastructure,  and would not impact on a businesses income as their workers would not be working.

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