Thursday, March 22, 2007
Aga Plans on Energy-Conscious Range
According to the Financial Times (sorry, no free link), Aga, which makes high-end cast iron range/oven combinations, is developing an environmentally friendly model. Yes, up until now, all their models apparently are always on - ever ready to use and, according to the article, producing upwards of 25 times the carbon as a conventional range. But people apparently like the convenience and, if you're spending literally $5,000 to $10,000 or more on the appliance, chances are that you also have money to burn - literally.
Instead of blazing away in a paraphrase of the old Tip O'Neill phrase about politics - warm globally, heat locally - there is some kind of control to put the range in a sleep mode, waking up to actually work. The upshot is that the company says that energy use would be "comparable" with an ordinary range. Funny, last I checked (which was just seconds ago), comparable can mean roughly equal, or it can mean worthy of comparison. Guess Aga finds it worthy to compare the energy use without directly addressing just how much heat it wastes.
Instead of blazing away in a paraphrase of the old Tip O'Neill phrase about politics - warm globally, heat locally - there is some kind of control to put the range in a sleep mode, waking up to actually work. The upshot is that the company says that energy use would be "comparable" with an ordinary range. Funny, last I checked (which was just seconds ago), comparable can mean roughly equal, or it can mean worthy of comparison. Guess Aga finds it worthy to compare the energy use without directly addressing just how much heat it wastes.
