Recent findings have shown there is now even more need to focus on increasing energy efficiency. Tiburon's Mark Martyrossian explains how to benefit.
Over the last 10 years (according to the International Energy Agency), China’s energy usage has doubled and overtaken America’s. Aside from being a truly depressing statistic, when one considers how far apart the per-capita usage still is, it puts into sharp focus the pressing need to increase energy efficiency. Conventional silicon-based solar and wind projects may continue to be the mainstream focus of unimaginative politicians, but the sad fact of the matter is the economics of this type of generation do not work without subsidy and, in the West the money is no longer there. In the...
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