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RE: What I learnt this week 27: Shale's unsustainablity, The Fat One, Black Death Fake News, Dirty microwaves & Eternal Life!
The microwave study (at least in the article you referenced) doesn't compare use to other cooking methods. It may be that they're still more efficient in energy use that cooking on the stove. But perhaps reduced microwave use time and keeping units longer will help.
Exactly, they are far more efficient, and that is before you consider running air conditioning to get rid of the waste heat from ovens and stoves.
Yeah right, I presume it's not meant to be a comparison - there are plenty of things that are affecting our carbon footprints - but more an awareness that even the things we don't even consider are having a profound effect. It would be good to see the comparison though, since I feel confident microwaves are replaced much more often than ovens (especially since ovens barely even exist over here in Asia)
We have a saying in the USA: There Ain't No Such Thing as a Free Lunch (TANSTAAFL). In other words, every choice has a cost.
Yep, though we all like to think the contrary...