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do they not understand that coolness counts for a lot so don't worry as much about efficiency?
Most electricity rate payers aren't interested in paying a "coolness" fee on their power bills. Worse, many are fine with paying less for dirtier sources of electricity than clean ones. Besides hydropower and some geothermal, its only been in the past 20 years or so where the cleaner tech is also the cheaper one in the forms widespread PV solar and wind.