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[Ric2013]

You can put it this way, you could drive a porsche from east London to Oxford street but burning 20l or using a fiat which uses 6l but for both cars it will take the same time.

I couldn't disagree more. The Porche will only take the same take the same amount of time as the Fiat (500?) if it is stuck behind the Fiat. The 2CV will get there with 5 litres and more quickly because it can cut across fields.

Though I do agree with the bit about a modulating boiler. Can you duplicate the post so I can both agree and disagree please?

 

[Old Account]

I couldn't disagree more. The Porche will only take the same take the same amount of time as the Fiat (500?) if it is stuck behind the Fiat. The 2CV will get there with 5 litres and more quickly because it can cut across fields.

Though I do agree with the bit about a modulating boiler. Can you duplicate the post so I can both agree and disagree please?

Of course I can however I do t get the first bit though perhaps you caould take the time to explain in a different way

 

[Ric2013]

I just felt like taking the thread further off-topic

If the Fiat and the Porche leave Oxford at the same time, the Porche will get there before the Fiat unless it gets stuck in traffic (or behind the Fiat). It is a faster car.

Only if there were a traffic jam would the Porche take as long as the Fiat. But if a Citroen 2CV then joined the race, the Citroen 2CV would win. Because it has phenomonal off-road capability, it can cut across ploughed fields carrying a basket of eggs on the back seat without any getting broken, so it could avoid the traffic jams by cutting across fields. My comment about 5 litres was incorrect. The 2CV would also need 6 litres to cover 56 miles.

On a more serious note, your analogy is imperfect. A better analogy for weather comp would be that a car run at 60mph and using slow acceleration will take a little longer to get to London than a similar car driven hard but stopped for frequent breaks but will use less fuel. Because, after all, the point about weather comp is that it improves the efficiency of the same boiler by "driving" it in a different way.

Silly though this discussion may sound, we may as well have the discussion here as we need to rehearse for when we explain to customers.