• cogitase@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    20 days ago

    Top-freezer refrigerators are the most efficient and the vast majority of them don’t have any smart features. Also, they’re among the cheapest refrigerators you can buy. Costco sells four of them and they’re all under $800. Most top-load washers don’t have any smart features and should last 15 years without repair. This seems like a problem where solutions already exist, it’s just that people shun them for being the cheapest option available.

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      Having the freezer on top is just bad design though. People use the refrigerator way way more than the freezer, so having it on the bottom means you always have to crouch down to get anything into or out of the fridge.

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        Bottom-freezer refrigerators use about 100 kWh more per year than top-freezer refrigerators. That’s an 11,300 GWh difference if it were applied to the ~133 million households in the US. If that electricity were being provided by natural gas power plants, they would emit 13,273,400,000 pounds of CO2 to generate that electricity. The environmental cost of that added convenience is enormous.