Energy Efficiency, Rediscovered: Climate change and rising energy prices are making efficiency look good - again

摘要

Cursing is not uncommon at the World Cup, the quadrennial global football championship. The event routinely provokes malediction for many reasons—ties, losses, inept play, called fouls, uncalled fouls, official favoritism (or disfavoritism), player injuries, national animosities, and so on. The next tournament will be no different in that respect. Due to begin in June 2010 and hosted this time by South Africa, it will be scattered across 10 stadiums crammed with tens of thousands of screaming fans.But millions more around the globe will watch the games on television, and they may well have a new reason to curse: blackouts.