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.