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Headline	Author	Published	Section
Nuclear questions for Lovins What should I ask the efficiency guru about nuclear power?	David Roberts	04 Jun 2008	Gristmill
Amory Lovins. Photo: © Judy Hill Amory Lovins is on the warpath against nuclear power, battling the industry PR push that says nuclear is a viable climate solution. He's got a new report, co-authored with Imran Sheikh, called 'The Nuclear Illusion' [PDF]. Spinning off from that report are a Newsweek article called 'Missing the Market Meltdown' and an article on the RMI site called 'Forget Nuclear.' I was on a conference call with Lovins earlier today in whic ...
Topics: interview, climate, energy, nuclear power, Amory Lovins (all these topics)

TED talks	David Roberts	19 Dec 2007	Gristmill
I keep seeing TED talks referenced here and there. I really need to start checking that site more often. Here are a couple of cool presentations. Amory Lovins on winning the oil endgame (sure to enrage all you car-haters out there): Larry Brilliant makes the case for optimism, or at least that's what the talk is called -- I watched it, and actually he makes an incredibly powerful case for pessimism, followed by a much weaker case for optimism: Here David Keith t ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, energy, climate (all these topics)

What should I ask Amory Lovins? Send me your questions before tomorrow	David Roberts	10 Jul 2007	Gristmill
Tomorrow, I'm interviewing Amory Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman, and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. I suppose Lovins needs no introduction here, but if you want a compact summary of his contributions, Wikipedia's got a decent entry. If you'd like to read some of his stuff, check out Winning the Oil Endgame, which promises a roadmap for getting the U.S. "completely, attractively, and profitably off oil" by 2025. This year, he won the highly pre ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

Nuclear debate Lovins v. Richter	David Roberts	08 Jun 2007	Gristmill
Energy guru Amory Lovins and Nobel Prize-winning physicist Dr. Burton Richter face off, mano a mano, debating the merits of nuclear energy for addressing the climate crisis. MongaBay offers a blow-by-blow account. No one will be shocked to hear that I would call the bout for Lovins, though it was far from a TKO.
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Is nuclear power green? CSM investigates	David Roberts	07 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Mark Clayton at the Christian Science Monitor looks into it. This describes my position quite well: But for those energy experts who have done life-cycle analysis of nuclear power, the big concern is that policymakers may be misled into believing that just because nuclear CO2 emissions are low, the cost of nuclear as an option to address climate change would be a bargain. Better, they say, to take the huge amounts of money needed for nuclear plants and use it ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, climate change mitigation, energy, nuclear power (all these topics)

Profitable opportunities to save energy: Why do we keep missing them? It's all about inequality	Gar Lipow	30 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Blogging about the new Elizabeth Kolbert article in the New Yorker, David writes: But then, there's the nagging thought. Lovins can always talk and explain and persuade better than we can -- he's a friggin' genius -- but the intuitive question keeps returning: if there were so many errors, and so much benefit to be gained by correcting them, and it's all so easy ... why isn't it happening? Something doesn't fit. Roberts quotes Kolbert expressing similar thoug ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

Elizabeth Kolbert profiles Amory Lovins And does it well	David Roberts	22 Jan 2007	Gristmill
The New Yorker has a great profile of Amory Lovins written by journalist, book author, and interviewee Elizabeth Kolbert. (It's not online -- check last week's issue.) It's a fantastic piece, really capturing Lovins' entrepreneurial drive not just to do research and develop strategies but to evangelize for his perspective. He's tireless trying to get his stuff into the right hands. I suspect most everybody in the green world has mixed feelings about Lovins, and the ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, climate, energy (all these topics)

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