[hristov]

The big news here is that Koch industries is actually issuing a press release bragging about reducing energy consumption. The mere fact that Koch industries publicly states that using less energy something to be proud of is a big change.

As far as the actual energy savings, technology wise they are not really anything new. Such savings are only possible because their machines seem to have been very energy inefficient to begin with.

If they really want to push the edge they should get rid of their lossy induction motors and install BLDCs or reluctance motors.

But they are correct that electric motors use up a lot of the worlds power and existing known improvements in electric motors can greatly reduce power use.