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How do I use air conditioning efficiently? Is it better to blast it briefly throughout the day, or just leave it on?

  • Written by Mark Goldsworthy, Senior Research Scientist, CSIRO
How do I use air conditioning efficiently? Is it better to blast it briefly throughout the day, or just leave it on?fizkes/Shutterstock

Despite so many people having air conditioning at home now, many are still unsure how to use it efficiently. And air conditioning uses a lot of energy. For example, running all the lights in an average home all day and night consumes about the same energy as one hour of air conditioning of the same space.

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