Amory Lovins Quotes

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• We've got 21st century technology and speed colliding head-on with 20th and 19th century institutions, rules and cultures.
• Any demanding high technology tends to develop influential and dedicated constituencies of those who link its commercial success with both the public welfare and their…
• 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…
• Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.
• Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not…
• 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…
• 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…
• In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In…
• Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad…
• We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.
• Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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. oil dependence can…
• What if we could make energy do our work without working our undoing?
• Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.
• Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.
• The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.
• 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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