by Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins
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Put This in Your Pipeline and Smoke It
Domestic oil and gas is not the ticket to U.S. energy security 0
Posted 8 years ago America's fragile domestic infrastructure threatens her energy security at least as much as dependence on oil from the Middle East. Replacing oil from that region with even more vulnerable domestic systems would therefore decrease energy security.
Stranger than science fiction.
Extraordinarily concentrated energy flows invite and reward devastating attack. In our 1982 Pentagon study Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security, we found that a handful of people could shut down three-quarters of the oil and gas supplies to the Eastern states (without leaving Louisiana), cut the power to any… Read More
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A Capital Idea
An excerpt from Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins 0
Posted 9 years, 9 months ago Imagine for a moment a world where cities have become peaceful and serene because cars and buses are whisper quiet, vehicles exhaust only water vapor, and parks and greenways have replaced unneeded urban freeways. OPEC has ceased to function because the price of oil has fallen to five dollars a barrel, but there are few buyers for it because cheaper and better ways now exist to get the services people once turned to oil to provide. Living standards for all people have dramatically improved, particularly for the poor and those in developing countries. Involuntary unemployment no longer exists, and income… Read More
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