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Our Chairman and Chief Scientist Amory Lovins is featured in the September 4th edition of
The Economist, which hit newsstands yesterday. In a profile titled "The frugal cornucopian," Amory is described as an energy visionary whose ideas have been ahead of the curve for decades. You can read the entire profile by clicking here.
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We welcome you to come see him for yourself! Amory Lovins and other RMI staff will be joined by special guests to discuss Solutions for a New Energy Paradigm in Denver on Friday, September 19. For additional details and to register for this free event, please click here. We look forward to having you join us.
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Sincerely,
Rocky Mountain Institute
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The Yuma Sun offers Less costly ways to go green (emphasis mine):
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...Lovins would have us make efficient use of existing energy resources, embrace a diversity of alternative fuel sources, reject massive energy-generation facilities and generate energy locally.
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Rather than spending trillions of dollars for greater generating, storage and transmission capacities, he first recommends increasing our end-use efficiency. Installing better building insulation, double and triple-pane windows, low-flow shower heads, Energy-Star appliances, weather stripping, fluorescent lighting, etc. will substantially lower our electricity needs.
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This approach, he contends, is the largest, cheapest, most benign, most quickly arranged, least visible, but most neglected means to enhance energy services.
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Take Lovins' home in Snowmass, Colorado, as an example of this approach. It makes maximum use of the sun and wind and passive heating and cooling; no outside electricity. Yet the home performs so well that bananas grow inside - at 10,000 feet.
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Daily we learn of electricity generation breakthroughs. Improved techniques hold greater energy efficiencies. Each discovery comes at a lower cost than its predecessors.
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Meander around the RMI site and explore. It's cheaper to reduce energy consumption than build new power plants, like the proposed Dirty Power Plant in Brockton.
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While Gore and Pickens presented worthy proposals, we should first look at lessening the electrical waste in our own homes. By decreasing our electrical needs and shoring up local generating projects, Americans can dramatically eliminate much of the costs associated with becoming fossil fuel-free in electricity production, as the former vice president seeks.
1 comment:
You're posting about conservation is starting to make sense. I didnt understand at first and I thought you were stupid, but Amory Lovins said it all-if you're house doesn't use energy, you elimanate demand. My wife nagged and we bought the front load washer. My wife bought those light bulbs and did some other stuff. When I paid the bill, I saw the results. Our life hasn't changed just the bill. OK I'm converted and reading that other stuff. This is too easy.
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