"We're also going to turn the crank as fast as we can to put the most cost-effective technology in front of customers."

The report concludes: "The most cost-effective technologies are nuclear and gas-fired.

The book describes how this has led to skewed public opinion and to congress cutting funds for programmes aimed at accelerating the deployment into the American market of cost-effective technologies already available.

"CAFE standards," he said, "increase the incentive to look for new cost-effective technologies."

His work involves research on traditional rural communities, as well as educating farmers on cost-effective technologies to boost their agricultural output.

It makes sense to employ a cost-effective technology that has nonproliferation advantages.

Small-scale CHP should be supported in other ways, optionally, without distorting competition, and where CHP is a cost-effective technology.

An important factor in this respect will be energy research, providing that it focuses on the genuinely more cost-effective technologies.

They are responsible for providing solutions and options, acquiring and integrating the most cost-effective technology and when necessary, developing systems for Singapore's defence and national security needs.

- the use of appropriate and cost-effective technology.