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…onversation.org’s “Why it’s important” page.) The organization had invited Amory Lovins to speak about the Defense Science Board’s publication titled “More Fight, Less Fuel”. I had perused the report and thought I could add something to the conversation. I was particularly interested in the report’s emphasis on using the fully burdened cost of fuel (FBCF) as an input to system procurement decisions and on the topics of endurance and resilience. On…

…. They frequently overstate their academic backgrounds (as is the case for Amory Lovins) and most members of the Union of Concerned Scientists. Sometimes they try to transfer credibility earned in one profession – like being a pediatrician – to imply that they are a credible source of information about nuclear energy or radiation health effects. Sometimes, they actually work for companies that sell competitive products or they have significant fin…

…others with people who push back pretty hard against my implications that Amory Lovins, the darling of the energy conservation and renewable energy industries, is an effective fossil fuel salesman and has been for more than 35 years. They point to his many publications over the years talking about energy efficiency, getting off of oil, and winning the oil end game, and ask how I can possibly believe that a man who writes so eloquently about his d…

…from the letter, especially in light of the bold statements by people like Amory Lovins and Harvey Wasserman who state that nuclear power has lost out in a free market to wind, solar and other renewables. . . .the significant market acceleration created by these tax incentives is about to stall if Congress does not act to extend these programs. Companies across the country are facing imminent decisions about whether to move forward with new renewa…

Joe Romm, an Amory Lovins protege and strongly partisan anti-nuclear activist who claims to be concerned about climate change, has published an emotionally charged diatribe at HuffingtonPost.com against the very idea that the US Senate included emission-free nuclear power in its list of clean energy sources eligible for loan guarantee programs under the stimulus bill. Comments are encouraged on Huffington Post, so I added mine. Unfortunately, the…

…hat can lead to frustrating arguments is the question of cost. People like Amory Lovins and Joe Romm oppose nuclear energy because they claim that it costs too much and displaces investments that should – in their opinion – be directed towards using less energy altogether and towards developing wind, solar, and geothermal sources for those energy needs that remain after all possible efficiencies have been wrung out. Lovins preaches a seductive gos…

…and energy efficiency as the cheapest, quickest form of new energy supply. Amory Lovins famously gave this response to energy challenges the name “negawatts”. Conservation and efficiency are attractive notions – people raised during the Depression and their children often decry other people’s way of living as wasteful. Everyone likes the idea of getting something for nothing. A certain portion of the pundit population loves the idea that altering…

…any to design and build atomic engines. Fast forward to today. People like Amory Lovins, Jim Riccio, and Joe Romm claim that nuclear is just too expensive to matter and point to the decisions made by “Wall Street” financiers. Setting aside for a moment the poor judgement that those individuals have exhibited for at least the past decade, I want to offer you some additional reasons why they might not want to finance large new nuclear power stations…