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…t’s safe to say that Andy Bochman, the dodenergy blogger, is an acolyte of Amory Lovins. 5 paragraphs from the bottom, “… The new energy order will be driven by our new Secretary of Energy Amory Lovins …” Rich I posted this earlier on “Wind Power Challenges In Pacific Northwest” and received no feedback. It does not take a genius to figure out this will not work. Look at the before and after pages for the Elk River Project. Here -> http://www….

…lly am beginning to understand why I have such a different world view from Amory Lovins, the “Chief Scientist” of the Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI). We have had completely different life experiences. In his 1977 book titled Soft Energy Paths on page 55, Lovins wrote, “In an electrical world, your lifeline comes not from an understanding neighborhood technology run by people you know who are at your own social level, but rather from an alien, remo…

…’s blog, so it morphed into its own post. I have been reading the works of Amory Lovins for a number of years and have often had difficulty following his math and reasoning. Part of the problem is that he makes some unsupportable assumptions. I have posted several comments on this blog about specific issues. You can find them by using the search block above to look for “Lovins”. Mr. Lovins is, however, an influential figure who has published a num…

…_________________________ This week’s newsletter contains these stories: * Amory Lovins on IT Conversations * Top Ten IT Conversations Shows for September 2007 If you are new to this blog, you can catch up on why I describe my feeling as shock and horror by simply performing a search of Atomic Insights for the word “Lovins” using that search box up at the top left corner of the page. (It is the blank space to the right of the white B with the oran…

…ugh the magic of Google Video, you can see the interview at Charlie Rose – Amory Lovins / Ian Schrager. At the beginning of the interview, Charlie began talking about how Amory had attended Oxford. I was impressed by the honest of Amory’s response: “I dropped out of both Harvard and Oxford. Harvard wanted me to specialize too much.” This is much more in line with what I found out and published on a post titled Amory Lovins’s Academic Career than t…

…r electricity in the coming years. Unlike self described energy gurus like Amory Lovins and Joe Romm, two people who have spent decades talking and writing about energy supply options, Mr. Yates has a legal responsibility as the head of a regulated monopoly electric utility company to make prudent choices that will ensure continued reliable operation of the system that supplies a vital commodity that supports modern society – electricity. He has t…

…nder the sponsorship of Friends of the Earth. (You can find out more about Amory Lovins’s background at Amory Lovins’s Academic Career,) Perhaps I would know more if I ran an $8 million dollar per year enterprise whose income comes from consulting with major corporations like Shell, Chevron, Wal-Mart, and with well run government agencies like Rumsfeld’s Department of Defense. I don’t know. Perhaps you all could help me figure out whose ideas have…