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…able technologies” (words taken almost verbatim from the numerous works of Amory Lovins dating back to the mid 1970s) and the following words about nuclear power from Electricity from Nuclear Power: Some of the most serious impacts linked to the generation of electricity on land can also be attributed to nuclear plants. Whereas the amount of solid wastes generated at nuclear plants is relatively small, these radioactive wastes pose health risks th…

…show the contrast with them compared to the “Soft Energy Path” proposed by Amory Lovins in 1975. I have been engaged in a couple of activities recently that reminded me of that promise, so I started working. Below, you will find a graph showing non-combustion energy sources for the US from 1949-2007. The source data come from the US Energy Information Agency Table 1.3 from the Annual Energy Review, 2007. I am sure you will notice where essentially…

Amory Lovins likes to deny the fact that private money is very interested in nuclear technology, while Al Gore is convinced that reactors only come in one size – extra large. Two companies have recently formed that put a lie to both of those theories. NuScale Power and Hyperion Power Generation are both venture funded companies with exciting products in the pipeline. NuScale Power is developing a 45 MWe natural circulation light water reactor tha…

…e set of actions to stop it. Those actions included supporting people like Amory Lovins – who freely admits that he has worked for major oil companies for 35 years – in their efforts to convince people that we can get all the energy we need from wind, solar, waves, and geothermal. He has been writing about the “Soft Energy Path” since the early 1970s in widely read publications, but our coal consumption has increased from about 600 million tons pe…

…than 150 at last count) The term “fossil fuel” does not equal “petroleum” Amory Lovins admits he works for oil companies Hydrogen production is certainly not “cheap” In that thread you will find two or three rather dismissive anti-nuclear posters whose main response to any information is to claim that it is irrelevant and whose main sources of information appear to be whatever they happen to find on the Internet that supports their belief system….

…io of Greenpeace, Tom Cochrane of the NRDC, Paul Gunter of Beyond Nuclear, Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute, Michael Mariotte of NIRS, or Arjun Makhijani of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research claim that nuclear power is destined to fail because “Wall Street does not like nuclear power”, take that as a ringing endorsement for the technology. Perhaps someday, they will figure out that recent history has clearly exposed t…

…ations. In contrast to the advice provided by people like Jon Wellinghoff, Amory Lovins and Joe Romm, China is not allowing the slowdown in electricity demand growth to enable it to simply stop investing in new power plant technology, hoping that conservation will provide a cheaper way to supply adequate power. Western countries continue to rely heavily on coal-fired power plants built decades ago with outdated, inefficient technology that burn a…

…n energy issues came from the petroleum endowed Rockefeller Foundation and Amory Lovins’s Rocky Mountain Institute, Romm is a committed disciple of the “anything but nuclear” philosophy that inevitably enables continued domination of the energy markets by fossil fuels like natural gas. His interest in even fracking enabled shale gas is not terribly surprising, but the zeal with which he discusses it is a bit over the top: There is simply no doubt…