Which is greener - boiling water in a kettle or on the hob?

[subversplat]

Sounds like sloblocks to me.

For the ideal cup of tea, you shouldn't re-boil the water. There's no health reason behind it, it's just that the oxygen amounts and the impurities get changed slightly each time you boil so the tea tastes "flatter".

I think you might limescale your kettle up more too, perhaps?

 

[Orang Utan]

Is it true you shouldn't reboil water....once it is boiled don't boil it again?....my housemate is always banging on about this???

Mine too - he says tea tastes rank if it's been boiled again - I cannot say I've ever noticed - he's well into the whole ritual side of making tea though and I think it's just part of the folklore of it all.

 

[moon]

Why are you drinking tea and coffee if you want to be more green

How can you justity all the pesticides and herbicides used in its production as well as all the pollution involved in in its transport to the uk????

if you were really concerned about the enviroment you would be drinking hemp tea, not all that imported rubbish.

 

[mrsfran]

I drink Clipper organic fair trade tea, but thanks for the naive self-righteousness anyway.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

I drink Clipper organic fair trade tea, but thanks for the naive self-righteousness anyway.

LOL

If you really wanted to be green, you'd drink nothing, and instead kill yourself and arrange to get buried in a biodegradable coffin, underneath a tree in the Amazon.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

BTW as for the reboiling of water, don't do it, as it just makes more oxygen excape from solution in the water. For slightly better tasting tea, switch the kettle off just as it starts to boil - many kettles stay switched on for a good few seconds after the water has started boiling, resulting in unecessary loss of dissolved oxygen...

Also helps if you use filtered water.

 

[Bob_the_lost]

LOL

If you really wanted to be green, you'd drink nothing, and instead kill yourself and arrange to get buried in a biodegradable coffin, underneath a tree in the Amazon.

Do you really want to know how many tonnes of C02 it would take to fly your carcass out to the amazon

 

[TeeJay]

Nothing's 100% efficient, but power stations do have the benefit of economies of scale - whether that's counterbalanced by distribution losses, etc, I don't know, but they're not as inefficient as you make them sound!

Power statsions are as inefficient as I have stated - I took the figures from the energy producers association website.

A power station turning fuel into heat, then into kinetic energy (motion) and this into eletricity, transmitting it (losing power) and then turning it back into thermal energy is losing energy at each stage (basic law of thermodynamics).

Burning gas (chemical energy into thermal) in your kitchen involves only one step and so has a far better efficiency.

 

[5T3R30TYP3]

Do you really want to know how many tonnes of C02 it would take to fly your carcass out to the amazon

Who said anything about flying I was thinking the person could walk to the nearest coast and then row a secondhand boat over to the Amazon.

 

[pembrokestephen]

Power statsions are as inefficient as I have stated - I took the figures from the energy producers association website.

A power station turning fuel into heat, then into kinetic energy (motion) and this into eletricity, transmitting it (losing power) and then turning it back into thermal energy is losing energy at each stage (basic law of thermodynamics).

Burning gas (chemical energy into thermal) in your kitchen involves only one step and so has a far better efficiency.

Oh.

 

[spanglechick]

Burning gas (chemical energy into thermal) in your kitchen involves only one step and so has a far better efficiency.

My dad - who has as much interest in green issues as the CEO of Exxon - has always told me this - from a saving money point of view.

Tis why gas central heating is cheaper too. (until we run out of gas and it becomes horribly expensive, natch).

 

[pembrokestephen]

My dad - who has as much interest in green issues as the CEO of Exxon - has always told me this - from a saving money point of view.

Tis why gas central heating is cheaper too. (until we run out of gas and it becomes horribly expensive, natch).

Yeah, I think I made a couple of tacit assumptions there, and dopey ones at that