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That gave us a
cost
efficiency advantage of over two orders of magnitude.
And that's what gives you this two orders of magnitude of
cost
efficiency.
And the next thing is to encourage this development of a swarm intelligence, which is where the
cost
efficiency comes in.
But our fantasies of substitution have
cost
us.
I'm so embarrassed at how cheap it was to get from my idea to me being implanted that I'm not prepared to tell you what it cost, because I suspect there are absolutely standard surgical treatments, probably in the USA, which
cost
more for a one-off patient than the
cost
of us getting from my dream to my reality.
This is age versus
cost
of health care.
And you can see that right around age 45, 40 to 45, there's a sudden spike in the
cost
of health care.
They don't actually change what the actual
cost
of the treatment is.
In the last few years we realized we were in the deepest crisis of medicine's existence due to something you don't normally think about when you're a doctor concerned with how you do good for people, which is the
cost
of health care.
There's another sign that we need pit crews, and that's the unmanageable
cost
of our care.
Now we in medicine, I think, are baffled by this question of
cost.
But there's a
cost
to this elegant unification, because years of research have shown that the math of string theory doesn't quite work.
So this means that in a place with a lot of AIDS, there's a really significant
cost
of sex.
But openness and inter-connectedness, it comes with a
cost
when we think about disease.
Maybe there's some studies, some longitudinal studies, that
cost
lots of money and took lots of time.
Oil costs our economy two billion dollars a day, plus another four billion dollars a day in hidden economic and military costs, raising its total
cost
to over a sixth of GDP.
So sticker prices will ultimately fall to about the same as today, while the driving cost, even from the start, is very much lower.
But such manufacturing techniques can scale to automotive speed and
cost
with aerospace performance.
And all those mega-barrels under Detroit
cost
an average of 18 bucks a barrel.
Over the next 40 years, buildings, which use three-quarters of the electricity, can triple or quadruple their energy productivity, saving 1.4 trillion dollars, net present value, with a 33 percent internal rate of return or in English, the savings are worth four times what they
cost.
The key is a disruptive innovation that we call integrative design that often makes very big energy savings
cost
less than small or no savings.
And then renovating smaller chillers instead of adding bigger ones saved 17 million dollars of capital cost, which helped pay for the other improvements and reduce the payback to just three years.
But now let's turn those compounding losses around backwards, and every unit of flow or friction that we save in the pipe saves 10 units of fuel cost, pollution and what Hunter Lovins calls "global weirding" back at the power plant.
Typically our retrofit designs save about 30 to 60 percent of the energy and pay back in a few years, while the new facility designs save 40 to 90-odd percent with generally lower capital
cost.
China leads their explosive growth and their plummeting
cost.
In contrast, the net additions of nuclear capacity and coal capacity and the orders behind those keep fading because they
cost
too much and they have too much financial risk.
Well efficiency and gas can displace them all at just below their operating
cost
and, combined with renewables, can displace them more than 23 times at less than their replacement
cost.
But those four futures at the same
cost
differ profoundly in their risks, around national security, fuel, water, finance, technology, climate and health.
At about the same
cost
as business as usual, this would maximize national security, customer choice, entrepreneurial opportunity and innovation.
If books
cost
money, you can have public libraries.
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