Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thing!

[Slowhand]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

We never had a cup, we used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.

Rolled up newspaper? Luxury!!
We never had a teapot. We had raw tea!! Had to suck a teabag on the way to work and be grateful
for it!

 

[dingledong]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

I must admit I like a weak cup of tea and as an experiment tried to see no w many cups of tea from 1 tea bag after 4 bit yucky 6 was my limit
Now we was poor

 

[Fin170]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

New tv is 80 watts (max) and the previous one was ~200 and half the size...

Not sure of the energy draw of a 70s or 80s one but I remember the ones I had from the 90s kicking out a fair amount of heat

 

[Pete999]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

You think that's bad back when I was a kid my Dad used to come home from work with a packet of extra strong mints and us kids had to sit round while he blew on us just to keep warm, C/H bah humbug

 

[Darkwood]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

The old CRT tv's actually used little in comparison going with the trend of each houshold having a large flatscreen and have you ever checked out the heat these flatscreens tv's dish out?

The biggest issue I have with all this green promotion is the quality and life expectancy of its claims is never realised, too may companies jump on the band wagon with green products saturating a market with products made poorly and at extortionate prices that have a high failure rate... now where you get these green energy saving promotion companies again these are always springing up from nothing lasting several yrs and dissapearing because the key thing they never factor into their calculations is the price drop over the yrs of the green products they sell and the quality increase as the market weeds out the crap. Yes on paper at the time it all looks rosy but I proved to 2 of these companies their figures don't add up or fail to take vital key points into account.

Take LED's for instance over the 5yr introduction period these lamps have dropped in price by over 60% as competition is fierce and the market is saturated and give it another 3-4 yrs the cost of a good quality manufactured LED product could be 80% less than it market introduction cost ... now get one of these green energy promotion companies and accept their wares you could in fact lose out financially accepting the 'green option' there and then as appose to waiting till a volatile and unreliable market settles in. As the price crashes on the products their promote over 90% of these green promotion companies fold as their is no requirement for them to convince anyone anymore as these products are routinely fitted by your bog standard sparks as they become the norm.

 

[Guest111]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

My argument with green has always been the "rip off" factor,anything branded green and helping to save the planet is always massively dearer.Lets be honest if all these people were that bothered about the planet then the environmentaly friendly products would be massively cheaper than ordinary ones,which nine times out of ten isn't the case.

 

[tidyboiler]

Re: Next time you get told our generation was wasteful and not 'Green' here's the thi

You think that's bad back when I was a kid my Dad used to come home from work with a packet of extra strong mints and us kids had to sit round while he blew on us just to keep warm, C/H bah humbug

Reminds me of an episode of the Royle Family. Jim says "come on then Barb, get your coat on!"........ she says "Oooh Jim, you taking me out?" he says "No, I'm turning the heating off!".