ABSTRACT
Thus deployment efforts for sustainability-oriented technologies often face significant challenges. For example, the penetration of improved coal power generation technologies such as ultra-supercritical pulverised coal and, in some developing countries, even supercritical pulverised coal have been rather slow (Chikkatur et al., 2011). Similarly, efficient lighting solution such as compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and light-emitting diodes (LEDs) still account for only a small fraction of residential lighting worldwide; incandescent bulbs still account for almost half of the residential lighting (Nicholas Lefevre and Waide, 2006). Such delays, or even failures, in the scaling up of deployment efforts could prove detrimental in achieving the goal of sustainability and underpin the urgency of the needed efforts.
