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In Industrial Manufacturing, Efficiency Falls as Technology Advances

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Illustration showing advanced chips

Advanced technologies are less efficient in their use of energy and materials per kilogram of output.

Credit: © 2009 Jupiter Images Corporation; USC BMES ERC

 



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