Prominent exploration experts have recently predicted that total world production of liquid oil will peak by about the end of this decade-or… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing? — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
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. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U.S.… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
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… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
“Contrary to some recent reports, electrification won’t be constrained by critical materials (see The Rare-Earth Conundrum sidebar); rather, they’re vibrant business opportunities to displace… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power.… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
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… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
“Some automakers already sell autos with carbon-fiber composite parts or powered by electric motors. As we’ll see next, these innovations are about to converge,… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
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… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
Public discourse about climate change has resulted in the erroneous idea that it's all about cost, burden and sacrifice. If the math was correct,… — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
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. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system. — Amory Lovins Copy Share Image
