Sublime

Because many Parisian apartments don’t have space for a full-size refrigerator and thrifty French people are happy with lower electricity bills, refrigerators in France are smaller than those in the States. It’s not uncommon to see people (or even families) living with the kind of refrigerator you had in your college dorm: great for keeping a few s

For example, induction burners are more efficient for cooking than traditional electrical burners in the same way that microwaves are—targeting the energy to a particular material (metal for induction, water molecules for microwaves) means that less energy is wasted in warming up the kitchen. We can replace furnaces with heat pumps or with thermal

That honor goes to our furnaces and water heaters. (This is also true in Europe and many other regions.) I’ll get to heating air and water in the next section. Americans

Heating and air conditioning account for half of residential consumption, which is why the single best thing we could do for the energy budget is to keep the heat