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…of involvement with energy politics and did several years of research with Amory Lovins Rocky Mountain Institute. Anyone who reads Atomic Insights will know how that background endears him to me (read with dripping sarcasm) but just in case you are new to this space, you can do a search on Amory Lovins in that search box right next to the white B on the orange background at the top left corner of the page. In our latest discussion, I asked Joseph…

Yesterday, I posted a link to a new anti-nuclear diatribe by Amory Lovins, a man that has been preaching the gospel of “negawatts” for more than a quarter of a century. According to his dogma, the only energy supply we need is conservation; and, implicitly, a little less of all of the sources of energy that we are using now. As a preacher, he has developed quite a flock, but his effectiveness in reducing world energy use is belied by the numbers….

…with opposing views – people like my favorite Harvard and Oxford drop out, Amory Lovins. It frosts me to read passages like the following from someone who advocates a questioning attitude about all forms of power: If she’d driven north for a day from New Mexico, for instance, she could have spent some time with Amory Lovins, director of the Rocky Mountain Institute and longtime advocate of a different energy path. As charismatic in his way as Ande…

…the prefix that stands for one millionth in the metric system. Here is how Amory Lovins defines “micropower”: There are two kinds of micropower. One is co-gen and combined heat and power. That was about two-thirds of the new capacity and three-quarters of the new electricity last year. In case you are not familiar with co-gen or combined heat and power, here are some example projects that have been in the news recently. ConocoPhillips to Expand Eu…

…hot water because I truly and honestly question everything. No matter what Amory Lovins says, there is a strong relationship between all forms of energy – if we have a lot more nuclear fission power we will need a lot less oil, coal and gas. Conservation does not compete with nuclear – if people really do use less then nuclear can simply displace coal and gas in power production that much faster. (I really do not believe that we will ever use less…

…ome details that others might ignore. The file that underlies the link for Amory Lovins is posted on a Rocky Mountain Institute web site, so it is an internal document with a locally controlled file name. That filename happens to be E06-09_EnergyGuruLovins.pdf. That says something to me about the man and his followers. End Aside) While listening to his recent speech for the Energy Conversations series in Washington, I heard him praise the plane an…

…of both schools and has no actual degree at all) with a Google search on “amory lovins academic career”. It is fascinating – though a bit depressing at times – to work through the process of understanding how people like Brower, Lovins, Ehrlich, Wasserman, Nader, Tom Adams, Gunther, Caldicott, and a few other leaders in the movement managed to have a measurable effect on what really was a very powerful commercial enterprise. Hundreds of thousands…

…about the subject… I guess most of you know by now that I would not trust Amory Lovins to install a light switch, much less to explain the difference between electrical power and oil heat and how they have no relationship to each other. After reading the story in Arstechnica, I was inspired to learn more about the AAAS session and did some drilling through their meeting web site. During the session, Roland Schenkel, European Commission, Joint Res…