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Lighting, Electricity, Steel: Energy Efficiency Backfire in Emerging Economies

Lighting, Electricity, Steel: Energy Efficiency Backfire in Emerging Economies

Full Title:  Lighting, Electricity, Steel: Energy Efficiency Backfire in Emerging Economies
Author(s):  Ted Nordhaus, Michael Shellenberger, Harry Saunders, Max Luke, Alex Trembath, and Amy Meyer
Publisher(s): Breakthrough Institute
Publication Date: October 1, 2014
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Description (excerpt):

Lighting, Electricity, Steel: Energy Efficiency Backfire in Emerging Economies presents three historical case studies of when energy efficiency rebound occurred: lighting from 1700 to present, electricity generation in 20th century America, and iron and steel production from 1900 onward.

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