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Appliances such as refrigerators, stoves, air conditioners, heat pumps, televisions, phone answering machines, hot water heaters, lights and home computers all consume electricity or gas, all cost citizens significant amounts of money, and all indirectly cause large amounts of pollution to be emitted. They also provide critical services that improve the quality of our lives.
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Hoffman, J.S. (1999). Appliances, Energy, and the Environment: The Scale of the Issue. In: Bertoldi, P., Ricci, A., Wajer, B.H. (eds) Energy Efficiency in Household Appliances. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60020-3_2
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