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We also discovered that efficiency doesn't matter so much if your energy source is free.

Normally, efficiency is crucial because the fuel cost of your engine over its life dwarfs the cost of the engine.

So you don't want to optimize for efficiency, you want to optimize for power per dollar.

The problem is the efficiency is one hundredth of one percent, because you're heating all the metal of the chamber and then cooling all the metal of the chamber each time.

That allows you to get the efficiency up from a hundredth of a percent to about two percent.

So you're reusing your energy five or six times, and that brings the efficiency up to between 30 and 40 percent.

But you can use it to optionally heat hot water and that brings the efficiency up even higher because some of the heat that you'd normally be rejecting, you can now use as useful energy, whether it's for a pool or hot water.

And I went to her with great enthusiasm, and I told her about how much we had learned about infrastructure, the city, the efficiency of the city, the architecture, the five materials that made the city.

Efficiency works really well when you can predict exactly what you're going to need.

In an environment that defies so much forecasting, efficiency won't just not help us, it specifically undermines and erodes our capacity to adapt and respond.

So if efficiency is no longer our guiding principle, how should we address the future?

But if you're stuck in one of these organizations that's still kind of captured by the efficiency myth, how do you start to change it?

Their opponents are in awe of this, but still too in thrall to efficiency to try it.

So I started to look at passion, I started to look at efficiency vs. effectiveness.

That allows us to have incredible efficiency and cost efficiency.

Who doesn't love efficiency?

Efficiency means more for less.

There's nothing that summarizes both the promise and the danger of efficiency like the humble potato.

The problems of efficiency today are less drastic but more chronic.

The obsession with efficiency can actually make us less efficient.

Efficiency also bites back with false positives.

Efficiency is also a trap when the opposition copies it.

Nobody has done more for efficiency than Thomas Edison.

His manager hired a so-called efficiency engineer, who advised him to save money by using more of the film stock that he'd shot, having fewer retakes.

Too much efficiency can weaken itself.

China has an energy policy based on radical energy efficiency and leap-frog technology.

So you can double efficiency with a 60 percent internal rate of return.

Then you can go even further, almost tripling efficiency with some operational improvements, double the big haulers' margins.

And if you go over the next 15 years or so to a blended-wing body, kind of a flying wing with internal engines, then you get about a factor three efficiency improvement at comparable or lower cost.

Now, when you go through a similar analysis for every way we use oil, including buildings, industry, feedstocks and so on, you find that of the 28 million barrels a day the government says we will need in 2025, well, about eight of that can be removed by efficiency by then, with another seven still being saved as the vehicle stocks turn over, at an average cost of only 12 bucks a barrel, instead of 26 for buying the oil.

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