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ENVIRONMENTAL INNOVATION AND SOCIETAL TRANSITIONS
Volume 9, Issue -, Pages 38-42Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.eist.2013.09.005
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Energy efficiency; Energy policy; Investment
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The global economy is not particularly energy-efficient. At current levels of consumption the U.S. economy, for example, is an anemic 14% efficient - which means that the United States wastes about 86% of the energy now burned to maintain its economy. Most recently, Lathier et al. (2012) documented an array of untapped cost-effective energy efficiency resources roughly equivalent to 250 billion barrels of oil. That is a sufficient scale that would enable the U.S. to cut total energy needs in half compared to business asusual projections for the year 2050, and still maintain a robust economy. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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