how much

[andy]

how much is 1 unit of electricity?

 

[breezer]

see electric bill

 

[Lectrician]

approx 8p + fuel vat

 

[pipme]

1 KwH

 

[Lectrician]

umm......yea, not sure on the question now......

1Kw hour is approx 8p.

so for 8p, you could get 1000 watts for 1 hour,
or 1 watt for 1000 hours, or 500watt for 2 hour.

Get the idea??

 

[andy]

i kno how 2 work out power etc... just wasnt sure of the exact price of 1 unit. thanx

 

[pipme]

SWEB Communication Sept 2004.

Unit charge for the first 225 units used each quarter 11.92 p inc VAT
Unit charge for all other units used 8.11p inc VAT @ 5%

So most of us in SWEBland will purchase 1127.3 Units for £100 in approx 90 days.
being 12.53 units per day ... Av cost £1.11 per day ... cheap as chips !!

Oi, you never seen a leccy bill ? Just reposition that little brass arm and tighten the two screws please ... now watch the wheel of fortune spinning your dosh merrily away!!

P

 

[Damocles]

Did I once read something like a carrier bag could produce enough electricty for a lightbulb for one hour? So maybe ten carrier bags.

 

[ban-all-sheds]

i kno how 2 work out power etc... just wasnt sure of the exact price of 1 unit. thanx

Did it not occur to you to look at your last electricity bill?

 

[Damocles]

Which would merely show that utility bills are increasingly designed to make it impossible to tell how much you are paying

 

[AdamW]

Did I once read something like a carrier bag could produce enough electricty for a lightbulb for one hour? So maybe ten carrier bags.

Last time I tried putting my back into an ergometer (posh rowing machine) at the gym, I could sustain 800 watts for about a minute. So, I could power a 40W lightbulb by rowing flat-out for 3 minutes per hour... Seems like a lot of bother to read after sunset though!

What about a 6 minute 10kW shower? That would be 1kWh, which would take 75 minutes to row off at 800 watts. S*d that.

N.B. Yes, 800W does sound a lot, it is about 1.1 BHP. But that is what the machine reckons. And quite frankly, I like it that I can now look a brake horse in the eye and know I could beat it. Not found a "brake horse" yet, though.

 

[Damocles]

Thing Ill stick with a low energy 10W bulb. But you can have 80 if you want.

 

[breezer]

i kno how 2 work out power etc... just wasnt sure of the exact price of 1 unit. thanx

Did it not occur to you to look at your last electricity bill?

thats what i said. but everyone else decided to go around the houses

 

[pipme]

Of course he may not have to hand, or pay, an electricity bill ....