Open Letter to an Amory Lovins Disciple

ByRod Adams

Several days ago, I blogged about an article in The Economist that profiled Amory Lovins and talked about his “frugal” vision for the world’s energy supply system. In the thread of comments attached to that post a reader named Gordon provided commentary indicating that he was a true believer in the “soft energy path” that Lovins has been advocating for nearly 40 years.

In response, I got rather verbose and provided a lot of links – so many that my blog comment software rejected my comment. I trimmed down the response to fit within Haloscan’s parameters but realized that I had produced something worth reading. As a lazy man with lots of activities going, I decided to repurpose the lengthy comment as my scheduled weekly contribution to CleanTechnica.

Please go there and read Answer to an Amory Lovins Disciple Who Believes in Conservation, Solar, Wind and Micropower.

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Rod Adams
Rod Adams

Rod Adams is Managing Partner of Nucleation Capital, a venture fund that invests in advanced nuclear, which provides affordable access to this clean energy sector to pronuclear and impact investors. Rod, a former submarine Engineer Officer and founder of Adams Atomic Engines, Inc., which was one of the earliest advanced nuclear ventures, is an atomic energy expert with small nuclear plant operating and design experience. He has engaged in technical, strategic, political, historic and financial analysis of the nuclear industry, its technology, regulation, and policies for several decades through Atomic Insights, both as its primary blogger and as host of The Atomic Show Podcast. Please click here to subscribe to the Atomic Show RSS feed. To join Rod's pronuclear network and receive his occasional newsletter, click here.

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