By going a little further down the energy tech valuechain and viewing the nascent LED industry through this familiar lens, they can walk in and let the lights come on.
The environmental result is that thevaluechain sucks ever more raw materials through as fast as possible, swallowing up huge volumes of timber, steel, plastic and energy in the process.
At a very fundamental level, to the extent that they can, they should aim to control as much of thevaluechain as possible, from raw materials and creation through sales and consumption.