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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.
Amory Lovins
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Amory Lovins
Age: 76
Born: 1947
Born: November 13
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Washington
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Amory B. Lovins
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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.
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Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or a few years later if production does not rise much-and will decline thereafter.
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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.
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Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
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I'm a practitioner of elegant frugality. I don't feel comfortable telling other people what to do, so I just try and lead by example.
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A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.
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By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.
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If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it. We ought to be looking for energy sources that are adequate for our needs, but that won't give us the excesses of concentrated energy with which we could do mischief to the earth or to each other.
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The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously.
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We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
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Nuclear power has died of an incurable attack of market forces and is way beyond any hope of revival, because the competitors are several-fold cheaper and are getting rapidly more so.
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The reason the U.S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.
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Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
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Today we have a temporary aberration called industrial capitalism which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.
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Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.
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The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
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We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
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