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TV-watching couch potatoes have outsized energy footprint

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imageWhen it comes to TV use energy, calling one household 'average' can be misleading. Evert F. Baumgardner - National Archives and Records Administration.

It is alluringly easy to use averages, but when most of a group is far from average, they can lead us astray. This is no less true in the area of energy consumption.

Consider for example the...

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