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Amory Lovins

(1947) Physicist United States

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Amory Lovins is a physicist from the United States, best known for Soft energy paths.

Quick Facts About Amory Lovins

Born: November 13, 1947
Nationality: United States
Profession: Physicist
Notable works: Soft energy paths
Spouse: Hunter Lovins

About Amory Lovins

Amory Bloch Lovins is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US National Petroleum Council, an oil industry lobbying group, from 2011 to 2018.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Awards & Honors

Right Livelihood Award Time 100 Benjamin Franklin Medal MacArthur Fellows Program Blue Planet Prize Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science Heinz Award Volvo Environment Prize

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Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany

Quotes by Amory Lovins · Page 2

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion.

Inspirational

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“By 2008, new U.S. autos averaged a miserable 23 mpg on the road. No wonder America’s best-selling vehicle in 2008, the Ford…

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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

Bases

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By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get…

Building

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If you ask me, it'd be a little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy…

Adequate

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“The 2008–2009 Great Recession also sent U.S. auto sales plunging from nearly 17 million in 2005 to 10.4 million in 2009, helping…

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If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because…

Agenda 21

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Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Applied

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“With composites, it may be possible to use “paint-in-mold” techniques to prime or color a part while forming it, greatly simplifying the…

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Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on…

Energy

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If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and…

Answers

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“Aluminum absorbs about twice as much crash energy per pound as steel, while carbon-fiber composites are up to six times better than…

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I'm not an environmentalist. I'm a cultural repairman. It's all about efficient and restorative use of resources to make the world secure,…

About

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We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Alaska

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Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be…

Asking

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Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes…

Compromise

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Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Analysts

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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.…

Attractive

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“This mismatch between home and export markets’ preferences is a competitive weakness in a global industry.”

Investing

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