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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
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Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition

by Robert G. Watts
March 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
18h 5m
English
CRC Press
Content preview from Engineering Response to Climate Change, Second Edition, 2nd Edition
231Energy Demand, Efficiency, and Conservation
since the 1960s, is promising the achievement of lighting efciencies above
150lm/W in commercial installations soon.*
It is important to notice that the pace of efciency improvement within a
technology family gradually trails off. It is also important to note that the suc-
cessful adoption of a new family of technology (orescent, after incandescent,
after re) occurs when the victor offers clear advantages over the vanquished.
Furthermore, the widespread presence of a winning technology does not
rule out the continued use of an older technology if they offer qualitatively
different services. F
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