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…his type of language is what tells me that people who follow the advice of Amory Lovins are either illogical, uninformed, or possibly just happy with the way that fossil fuel dominates the world’s energy markets. Lovins has been very successful for thirty years by seducing people into believing that energy conservation is an easy and painless path to a nirvana where we have all the energy we “need” and where the energy that we do use does not do m…

…acts and Logic. As a long time skeptic when it comes to words published by Amory Lovins on the topic of nuclear energy and its economic competitiveness, I thought I could add some value to the discussion. Steve Kirsch, the guest author of a recent post at Brave New Climate titled The Integral Fast Reactor had also contributed to the fray. The discussion got really interesting when Mr. Lovins joined in with a number of responsive posts directly cri…

…on process is slow at NY Times, here is a copy of my comment: Paxus wrote “Amory Lovins has done an excellent job of deconstructing the climate economics of nuclear power at tinyurl.com/forgetnuclear” Is that the same Amory Lovins who predicted in a 1976 paper that there would be no electricity being produced by nuclear power plants in the the United States after 2000 and in the same paper advocated for a doubling of coal consumption? He was way w…

…ransition off of natural gas at the same time. And here is a passage where Amory Lovins is the speaker: Well, the President made two very interesting shifts in language in his speech. One is from just oil to talking about ending the addiction to fossil fuels, so that refers also to coal and ultimately, indeed, to natural gas. And second, he started a very interesting exercise in consensus building, because he pointed out that this has cost — our d…

…everal 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…

…big, dumb rock sitting there for the benefit of today’s human population. Amory Lovins is right to worry about discovery of a clean, cheap source of energy in today’s world. There are already so many selfish, unaware people who feel it is their “right” to have as much energy as they want (GWB sure helped Americans on this score). So, I can imagine (as I’m sure Amory Lovins can as well) people who never turn off their TVs, radios, computers, etc….