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While the previous chapter has presented technical solutions to reducing energy use, this chapter first looks at the historic failure of this approach to reduce consumption and then at how we might do better. The simple message is that achieving reductions in energy use, and consequent greenhouse gas emissions, is not simply a matter of technology. What also matters is how we use the technology and what our expectations of it are. This can be illustrated by an example.
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Herring, H. (2007). The Limits to Energy Efficiency: Time to Beat the Rebound Effect. In: Elliott, D. (eds) Sustainable Energy. Energy, Climate and the Environment Series. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230378384_7
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