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Discover LudwigThe phrase "energy inefficient" is correct and commonly used in written English.
You can use it to describe something that does not efficiently use energy resources or is not energy-efficient. For example: "The old light bulbs in our house are very energy inefficient compared to LED lights." "The government is implementing policies to promote energy-efficient appliances and reduce energy inefficiency in homes and businesses."
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Heating your home becomes expensive, and the entire building is energy inefficient.
Many of these are in need of repair and are energy inefficient.
It was energy inefficient and low on any priority list for new capacity.
Bioplastic derived from corn requires special handling in recycling, and the difficulty of those processes makes them energy inefficient.
This article once again highlights for me how technologically backward and grossly energy inefficient the United States has become.
The UK's homes are some of the most energy inefficient in Europe, and efforts to improve them have so far had limited success.
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But today "the system is not just energy-inefficient; it's capital-inefficient".
American taxpayers' dollars are also being used for energy-inefficient construction projects.
A vehicle using such a system would thrive in urban stopping and going -- the most energy-inefficient kind of driving.
Doha's skyscrapers, vast shopping malls, its lavish apartments and swanky hotels are among the most energy-inefficient in the world.
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