Which best evaluates the following statement: it's greener to wash dishes by hand than to use a dishwasher?

It is true that energy efficient dishwasher is a water and energy saver than washing dishes by hand. A star-rated dishwasher uses 4 gallons of water in each cycle compare to a kitchen faucets who pumps out 2.5 gallons of water per minute. To conserve water, the accumulated dishes and cookware must be stack properly in a dishwasher before running a cycle. As to conservation of energy, people tend to use warm water to wash the dishes by hand and heating of water cost much, while in a dishwasher, energy-saving tips such as running a light cycle and turning off heating drying option will mark down your energy consumption. Therefore, the use of dishwasher is a much greener idea. 

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since the atomic number is the number of protons in the nucleus, as we move to the left on the periodic table, the electrostatic pull between the nucleus and the valence electron shell decreases. as we move down a group (vertical column), the valence shell energy level gets further and further from the nucleus.