Much attention has been attracted by the paper of Keepin and Katz (1988) which claimed that for limiting greenhouse gas build-up it was several times more cost-effective to invest in energy efficency measures than in nuclear power. The author of this reply claims that not only were the claims on behalf of energy efficiency faulty in detail, they were also unsound in principle: it has been known for at least 125 years that more efficient energy use is associated with increases in total and per capita energy consumption, not decreases. The present paper discusses relevant published work and attempts to explain the economic processes involved.
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