electricity usage
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Two Years Into COVID-19, the City That Never Sleeps Returns to Waking Up Early
Higher electricity usage in NYC homes reflects the “new normal,” and raises concerns about winter energy costs.
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Bitcoin’s Impacts on Climate and the Environment
The cryptocurrency’s high value comes at a high cost to the planet.
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New Data Suggest COVID-19 Is Shifting the Burden of Energy Costs to Households
Apartment-level electricity use has increased under New York’s stay-at-home order. It could make matters worse for households already struggling economically.
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Test Your Energy-Saving Savvy
What hogs more energy? A desktop computer or a laptop? Central air conditioning or an A/C unit? Take Slate’s energy quiz and find out. The magazine collaborated with researchers at Columbia’s Earth Institute to come up with questions to test if readers know how much energy their household appliances are guzzling. The quiz was adapted…
