Reply to: Patio Heaters

[expat]

precisely.

Even if the TV used 1kW, if still wouldn't be a very good (outside space) heater.

My guess is that he was using the mis-use of statistics that usually used here. I.e: he was referring to the heater for one hour and the TV for one year.

tim

It was "based on normal patterns of use" i.e. TV on 24/365, patio heater one chilly spring evening.

[tim123]

My new TV uses 1W on standby.

A 1/4 watt patio heater wouldn't use much gas would it.

precisely.

Even if the TV used 1kW, if still wouldn't be a very good (outside space) heater.

My guess is that he was using the mis-use of statistics that usually used here. I.e: he was referring to the heater for one hour and the TV for one year.

tim

[PAH]

My new TV uses 1W on standby.

A 1/4 watt patio heater wouldn't use much gas would it.

Maybe it was measured over the course of a millennium.

[DimPrawn]

I want to know what the "doctor" who said that "4 patio heaters only create as much extra green house gas as ONE TV on standby", got his doctorate in.

It obviously wasn't a science subject, as that statement obviously doesn't stand a sanity check for one second.

tim

My new TV uses 1W on standby.

A 1/4 watt patio heater wouldn't use much gas would it.

[tim123]

I want to know what the "doctor" who said that "4 patio heaters only create as much extra green house gas as ONE TV on standby", got his doctorate in.

It obviously wasn't a science subject, as that statement obviously doesn't stand a sanity check for one second.

tim

[Diver]

So they are going to be expat-io heaters? IGMC

[PAH]

If we were allowed more 7 litre V8 4x4's on the road, we wouldn't need fliping patio heaters.

Strange how we're supposedly increasing pollution, yet there aren't many chimneys billowing smoke anymore.

That's what happens when you don't pay any attention to history at school, you leave yourself open to a mugging.

[DimPrawn]

Around the same time their terraced house became a cottage or townhouse.

My favourite housing type is the "linked detached", also known as a semi.

Mock Tudor

[PAH]

I hate patio heaters. If it's too cold to go outside, don't go outside! And when did everybody's "back yard" become a "patio" anyway?

Around the same time their terraced house became a cottage or townhouse.

My favourite housing type is the "linked detached", also known as a semi.

[DimPrawn]

EU to ban them. Because they are not energy efficient? But they are: if you want heat on your patio, they are a great way to do it.

Anyway, now that we have been driven outside the pubs to smoke, they are a necessity. Though my partner insists that if patio heaters are banned too, she will just wear a fur coat.

If we were allowed more 7 litre V8 4x4's on the road, we wouldn't need fecking patio heaters.

[thunderlizard]

I hate patio heaters. If it's too cold to go outside, don't go outside! And when did everybody's "back yard" become a "patio" anyway?

[PAH]

You are ATW and I claim my £5 (using which I'll buy some ammunition to annihilate some moe grey squrrel interlopers).

Wrong, I've never been to ruskieland, though I did have rusks as a baby. Do they still do them? They were great. Might chuck out the Rich Tea and try to dip them in my mug instead.

You don't need any ammo to kill off squirrels. Just let them chew on your nuts. It's like giving chocolate to dogs. That's why squirrels take the nuts and bury them in their own little land-fill sites.

[PAH]

So can you use a patio heater to cook a grey squirrel or not?

Dunno, but they're great for making ginger mingers out of 'ordinary' folk.

[PRC1964]

So can you use a patio heater to cook a grey squirrel or not?

I quite like the idea that the heater is used by smokers.

Smoked squirrel could be a good plan B. As a bonus we can go for EU protection of smoked squirrel meaning that they won't be able to ban patio heaters.

As an aside, if it's cold enough to need a heater, it's not a patio. Patios should be left in Spain where they can be fitted with patio coolers.

[KathyWoolfe]

Sheesh kebabs, Gordon Ramsey would have his work cut out with you.

FYI Red quirrels are so delicate you have to eat them raw otherwise the meat just liquifies, whereas the greys take two days of hard boiling just to loosen their fur.

They can't be as delicate as quail's eggs or stuff like that ....and truffles..and ...and...whatever.

You are ATW and I claim my £5 (using which I'll buy some ammunition to annihilate some moe grey squrrel interlopers).

Gordon Ramsay?....pshaw, can't stand him!