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…….and is gonna take the heat out of tumble dryers. READ ON
Re: Brussels takes the suck out of vacuums
GREAT EXCUSE … to say to customers sorry there is nothing that can be done . its European law , oh yes and maybe if you remove the 4 ton of dog hair from the hose it might work a tad better .
Re: Brussels takes the suck out of vacuums
Although I guess it’s easy to blame European bureaucrats for a lot…
Don’t forget that customers also want things that are all too often contradictory. For example, they all want machines that save power as the great white hope (often lie) is that they will save buckets of energy by using less.
Manufacturers provide the energy saving products but, people either won’t or are reluctant to pay the premium for them or, they bemoan how they work in some way.
But if you ask people in the street, the things that they care about with most appliances is price, looks and energy use. By comparison most other things pale to almost insignificance. If government or whoever polls people they can only do anything about one of those really.
All that governments do (regardless of flavour) is play to the populace. If that means that they introduce a bit of legislation that “lowers energy use” it wins votes, doesn’t really cost them anything and the aftermath isn’t their problem. Meanwhile they’re seen as being “green” and saving all those lovely polar bears and forcing these big bad manufacturers to tow the line and stop melting Greenland by using all the energy.
It looks good and gets headlines but, IMO, most of it is just window dressing for the masses.
Who’s to blame though?
Consumers for wanting things to ease their conscience about buying all the stuff they do or governments for scoring brownie points with voters?
K.
Re: Brussels takes the suck out of vacuums
kwatt wrote:All that governments do (regardless of flavour) is play to the populace. If that means that they introduce a bit of legislation that “lowers energy use” it wins votes, doesn’t really cost them anything and the aftermath isn’t their problem
But in essence there is nothing wrong with their dictat toward lower energy use when the latest technology can comply their wishes. A challenge for engineers to produce maximum output for minimum input is and always has been the ideal. An easy task for vacuum cleaner and tumble dryer manufacturers to work within a limited framework in producing goods that work as well if not better yet save even more power consumption.
The cost to the consumer will inevitably increase and the reliability no doubt will decrease but overall the manufacturer wins every time. The latest A rated heat pump tumble dryers are testament to that, cost a fortune to buy yet fail constantly. The new generation super dooper low wattage high suction vac will create an even more deafening racket but will tick all the boxes and end up on the landfill even faster.
Everyone wins, the product works, consumers buy, manufacturers score, legislation upheld, landfill bulges and so on……..
Re: Brussels takes the suck out of vacuums
“Who is to blame”
Its been one of those days, no matter how much you tell a group of people it cannot work the way you want it too with the limited resources your prepared to use.
Your so clever you misunderstand the job you’ve never done, you still come to the conclusion the results that are being achieved are not good enough and can be improved, but your solution will further the decline in results, its still their fault not yours.
Its a mad world ruled less by commonsense and thinking independently and more relant on following the mass view usually via the media or financial mismanagement.
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