Article | 1991

Efficient Use of Electricity

By Amory Lovins
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Electricity is fundamental to the quality of modern life. It is a uniquely valuable, versatile, and controllable form of energy, which can perform many tasks efficiently. In little over 100 years electricity has transformed the ways Americans and most people of the world live. Lighting, refrigeration, electric motors, medical technologies, computers, and mass communications are but a few of the improvements it provides to an expanding share of the world’s growing population.