Comments on: It’s OK to Use Patio Heaters http://www.homeheatingguide.co.uk/blog/its-ok-to-use-patio-heaters.html Central Heating, Insulation and Boiler Information Wed, 18 Jan 2012 10:51:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Gerry Dale http://www.homeheatingguide.co.uk/blog/its-ok-to-use-patio-heaters.html/comment-page-1#comment-1121 Gerry Dale Sat, 16 Oct 2010 05:16:13 +0000 http://www.homeheatingguide.co.uk/blog/its-ok-to-use-patio-heaters.html#comment-1121 "To put this in perspective it would take more than 5 outdoor gas heaters to emit as much carbon dioxide as one TV does in a year, on stand-by mode!" - What absolute poppycock!! Misleading and simply wrong. A TV in standby uses about 0.5-5 Watts (about 0.000006Kg CO2) an hour. An out door heater pumps out about 2Kg CO2 an hour. Do the math. What Brits should be jumping up and down about is why really dirty countries like Australia (person for person, the worst CO2 global warming contributers) can enjoy energy inefficient living when we have to spend loads on insulation etc! “To put this in perspective it would take more than 5 outdoor gas heaters to emit as much carbon dioxide as one TV does in a year, on stand-by mode!” – What absolute poppycock!! Misleading and simply wrong. A TV in standby uses about 0.5-5 Watts (about 0.000006Kg CO2) an hour. An out door heater pumps out about 2Kg CO2 an hour. Do the math.

What Brits should be jumping up and down about is why really dirty countries like Australia (person for person, the worst CO2 global warming contributers) can enjoy energy inefficient living when we have to spend loads on insulation etc!

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