This Breville jug kettle offers a great kettle design which successfully unites style, quality and performance into a compact 1 Litre Stainless Steel Kettle. It features a concealed 1.8kW element and limescale feature, Breville guarantees speed and quality in this high performance kettle. Other features include an easy-view water gauge, a 360 degre[Read More]
The Eco Kettle 2 can help save water and energy with one touch. Recommended by the Energy Saving Trust. It has a unique dual-chamber design which holds 1.5 litres of water. A simple press of the knob depresses enough for one cup of water, the remaining water stays in the main chamber for next time. The standard Eco Kettle used an average of 31% les[Read More]
The Philips HD4644 Eco Kettle has a stylish design and many eco friendly features such as the One Cup Indicator. This allows you to avoid boiling more water than you need and consequerntly saving you energy by as much as 66%.
The Philips Eco Kettle has the following features:
1.7 Litre, 3.0kW Kettle
Hinged locking lid for safety and ease of use
Cord Storage in the base
A 360° central connector for easy lifting and placing
General Energy Saving Tips: 1. Don’t leave the water running when you brush your teeth/wash hands 2. Use solar powered lamps or soy candles as much as possible 3. Unplug all electrical appliances when not in use 4. Take 3 minute showers instead of baths 5. Use gas heaters or fireplace to warm up your home Showers/Baths 1. Choose to shower rather than bath — this saves an enormous amount of electricity & water 2. Install Water Saving Shower Heads and faucets 3. Use biodegradable shower gels / soap / shampoos — much better for you & the environment Lights: 1. Replace old light bulbs with energy saving light bulbs 2. Switch off lights when you aren’t using them Geysers: 1. Turn off Geyser when you go to bed and back on 2 hours before you shower in the morning 2. Get a timer installed to turn Geyser on and off automatically 3. Replace existing Geyser with Solar Water Geyser (speak to your insurance company) Electrical Appliances: 1. Buy AAA electric appliances — they save energy and are more efficient 2. Use ‘energy saving’ option on all electrical appliances 3. Boil only the amount of water you need in the kettle, don’t fill it up 4. Partly dry your clothes on a clothes line before using the tumble dryer
Saving paradoxes Electricity has been so widely spread because electric energy is easiest for transforming into heat, light and mechanical energy. Electricity for heating and cooking has been a norm for a long time. And annual consumption of electric energy is constantly increasing. Therefore energy-saving technologies are introduced everywhere but power reduction is not good for electric kettles and hot-water boilers. Why is it so? Everybody saw at least such a household device as a kettle. So, the most interesting thing is that a kettle with higher power will help you to save electric energy. Any arguments? Everything is rather simple. If we take not ideal ball-shaped vessel in vacuum but a real kettle, it tends to cool down, ie loose heat through its body and because of water evaporation. Let us assume that a 2-litre kettle loose 300 joule energy per second because of heat emission and water evaporation, and correspondingly 1000 joule energy per second under 1- kW power and 2000 joule energy per second under 2- kW power. We will assume that we need 600 thousand joule energy for heating 2 liters water up to 100 degrees (without taking into account boiling). Thus, we get time necessary for this quantity of energy to be passed to water that is 14.3 minutes under heater power of 1 kW and 5.9 minutes under heater power of 2 kW. As the result we lose 257 and 106 kJ correspondingly for heating a room with a kettle. In other words we will save 0.04 kW /hour. It’s next to none …
Andrew Smith from the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority presents cheap and easy energy saving tips that will trim hundreds from your power bill on TVNZ’s Good Morning. Screened live on 17 April 2012.
