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How You Think You Save Energy Is Not How You Save Energy, Study Shows
According to the researchers, basically every trope that we follow about how to save energy is in fact wrong: “Participants estimated that line-drying clothes saves more energy than changing the washer’s settings (the reverse is true) and estimated that a central air-conditioner uses only 1.3 times the energy of a room air-conditioner (in fact, it uses 3.5 times as much).”
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The comments following the article are more interesting than the article, and more informative.
Yeah, I'm not very impressed with the article. One example: “Participants estimated that line-drying clothes saves more energy than changing the washer’s settings (the reverse is true) ..."
How about comparing apples to apples? (In this case, the function of drying clothes - one can obviously both change the washer settings AND use the clothes line).