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Changing Your Washer's Settings Saves More Energy Than Line Drying

By Ben Popken August 24, 2010
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Quick, what uses more energy, room air conditioners or central air? What saves more energy, turning off the lights, or switching to CFLs? If you picked the first answer to these questions, you’re like most Americans: totally wrong.

How You Think You Save Energy Is Not How You Save Energy, Study Shows [Infrastructurist]

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