Bitcoin consumes 4,000,000,000 W of power to process four transactions per second. A single Raspberry Pi with a database can do an order of magnitude more on 5W. Think about that next time you wonder if it's a good design.
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And think about how the fractional reserve fiat system now has no incentive to lower their power consumption. Bitcoin miners have more than just incentive, they must to remain profitable. This movement will innovate the alt energy space rapidly.
You can't make Bitcoin more efficient because it's a *fundamental emerging property* of the design that it's inefficient. As long as miners are competing and there's a block size cap it's always going to be a hilarious waste of electricity.