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.
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.