De scaling kettle

[Stuart Noble]

Dangerous stuff IIRC. Something to do with the shape of the crystals

[Reentrant]

An acid will only remove scale if the calcium and magnesium salts are readily soluble. The sulphates aren't so that's why you don't descale with sulphuric acid. The oxalates aren't soluble either so I can't see how rhubarb would help. (Calcium oxalate = kidney stone).

[Stuart Noble]

We're being led to believe that all businesses run on borrowed money.

[chris French]

If you eat enough yes, but you would need to need to eat a lot to kill you.

Butt he little bit of oxalic acid left after emptying wouldn't be a problem

[tinnews]

Pointless in terms of having a significant effect on global warming. We can do *much* more by using cars less, not flying everywhere and things like that.

While the powers that be wimble on about turning off devices on standby we still have the madness of it costing orders of magnitude more to travel to (say) the south of France by train than it does to fly there. Changing taxation/subsidies on flying versus rail would do far more than any of these kettle/standby/CFL things we're talking about here.

[Huge]

And we can do more still by not having babies. But on-one wants to talk about that.

Doubtful. High speed rail isn't significantly more efficient than flying.

[Steve Firth]

I wouldn't use DS-3 to descale a kettle. The smell will be with you forever and it taints the water. Been there, done that, thrown away the kettle.

[Owain]

I hope you meant to write "moults" but maybe you didn't ... I had a dog like that once ;-)

Amuses me, the radio ads saying the average Scottish family wastes £410 on throwing out perfectly good food every year.

I don't spend that on food in a year.

Owain

[dennis]

There is a reason for that.. trains use more energy and you have to pay for it.

Modern planes are nowhere near as inefficient as you are lead to believe. Especially after you factor in all the energy used to maintain the tracks, stations, etc.

You want even more train subsidies? Planes aren't subsidised.

We still allow ocean liners and they are far worse than any plane.

[Clive George]

Really? Thin bloke, are you? :-)

(or does somebody else feed you?)

[Anne Welsh Jackson]

Sorry! That should have been "moults"!

[Anne Welsh Jackson]

Of course it was! My brain goes to sleep at midnight... (that's my excuse, anyhow!)

[Anne Welsh Jackson]

Mine doesn't! We've never even used the overdraft facility that the (Clydesdale) bank insisted we would need!

[Anne Welsh Jackson]

Heaven be praised! A man with a brain! ;-))

You spend less than £1.05 a day on food? How do you survive?

I spend about £125 a month on food, for two adults and two dogs. It would be less, if we didn't eat so many biscuits and sticky buns!

[dennis]

I spend that much a week.

[geoff]

In message , "dennis@home" writes

I didn't think that glue was that expensive

[The Medway Handyman]

Dennis is an addict Geoff. As soon as he gets a low he needs a fix.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember David saying something like:

Well, you could sit and chant at it or send groovy peace de-scaley thought waves.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

We were somewhere around Barstow, on the edge of the desert, when the drugs began to take hold. I remember Anne Welsh Jackson saying something like:

You spoil that dog, Doris.

[Owain]

Yes :-) I'm also expert in cobbling together meals from the out-of-date cabinet in Tesco.

Sadly, no.

Owain