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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by judge2020 on Sunday August 14, 2022 @08:58PM (#32464687)
> since the fridge compressors from the 1940's and 1950's era were very efficient

Is this only true for fridges? Because this video on a 1984 washing machine versus one from today[0, timestamp relevant] shows a big difference in efficiency from then to now.

0: https://youtu.be/NHrPcx0xkGU?t=776

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Re:Declining quality of consumer-grade products – 2009 fridg... by userbinator on Sunday August 14, 2022 @10:00PM (#32465064)
He shows the instantaneous/peak power in watts, not total energy used, and didn't even use the same meter for both.

I think the actual difference is not quite so much.

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