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From the Ted Talk by Alex Laskey: How behavioral science can lower your energy bill

Unscramble the Blue Letters

But we're just one company, and this is just scratching the surface. Twenty percent of the electricity in hmeos is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have icffneiient lightbulbs. They may. I mean we leave the lights on in empty rooms, and we leave the air ctoinodiinng on when nobody's home. That's 40 billion dollars a year weatsd on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change. That's 40 billion — with a B — every year in the U.S. alone. That's half our coal usage right there.

Open Cloze

But we're just one company, and this is just scratching the surface. Twenty percent of the electricity in _____ is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have ___________ lightbulbs. They may. I mean we leave the lights on in empty rooms, and we leave the air ____________ on when nobody's home. That's 40 billion dollars a year ______ on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change. That's 40 billion — with a B — every year in the U.S. alone. That's half our coal usage right there.

Solution

  1. wasted
  2. homes
  3. conditioning
  4. inefficient

Original Text

But we're just one company, and this is just scratching the surface. Twenty percent of the electricity in homes is wasted, and when I say wasted, I don't mean that people have inefficient lightbulbs. They may. I mean we leave the lights on in empty rooms, and we leave the air conditioning on when nobody's home. That's 40 billion dollars a year wasted on electricity that does not contribute to our well-being but does contribute to climate change. That's 40 billion — with a B — every year in the U.S. alone. That's half our coal usage right there.

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