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 E04-05, Inflating Hydrogen Needs (PDF-64k)
- In an unpublished letter to Science, Amory Lovins points out that CalTech researchers overstated by about tenfold the amount of hydrogen that would be needed to run the U.S. economy. This continues a series of technical errors by the same group, including its famous two-order-of-magnitude overestimate of how much hydrogen might leak from a hydrogen-based energy system, ostensibly endangering the ozone layer. See E03-02 (02 February 2004).
- E03-15, Hydrogen: The Future of Energy (PDF-1.3 MB)
- Public interest in hydrogen as a fuel for the future has reached an all-time high. Yet conflicting, confusing, and often ill-informed commentary accompanies the excitement. This PowerPoint presentation explains basic hydrogen facts and fallacies. This presentation was given by Amory Lovins at the Given Institute, Aspen, Colorado (06 August 2003).
- D04-23, Energy Performance Contracting for New Buildings (PDF-485)
- The way buildings are typically designed, constructed and operated offers little incentive for energy efficiency. Architect/Engineer firms are often paid a flat fee or a percentage of construction costs, an arrangement that discourages them from spending extra time on innovation and efficiency. Performance contracts provide an incentive to design and construct efficient buildings, making it worthwhile for designers to integrate energy efficiency into the plan from the start, when it is possible to have the largest impact with the least effort and cost. This report was funded by The Energy Foundation (2004).
- E03-07, Hydrogen Economy: Not So Difficult — Without Nuclear Power (PDF-136k)
- RMI's CEO Amory Lovins replies to a Nature article by EPRI's Paul Grant, who claimed that a hydrogen economy would be impractical (taking too much land, capital, fossil fuel, etc.)...except with nuclear power, whose dismal economics he conveniently ignored (23 August 2003).
- E03-05, Twenty Hydrogen Myths (PDF-350k)
- This documented white paper demystifies hydrogen energy, debunks popular misconceptions, and proposes a surprisingly easy, attractive, and profitable path to the hydrogen economy (23 June 2003).
- E03-02, Rebuttal to Tromp et al's Response in Science, Science magazine (PDF-136k)
- Amory Lovins argues that the authors of the erroneous Science (www.sciencemag.org) article claiming enormous hydrogen leaks have misinterpreted their references (again) in an effort to conceal their original mistake (13 October 2003).
- U02-02, Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits (PDF-1.5 MB)
- This research paper explores the cost-effectiveness of fuel cells as an electrical generation source to provide domestic, commercial and industrial power. Cleaner Energy, Greener Profits finds that, over the next decade, the once-centralized electric power industry will evolve toward a more competitive and heterogeneous structure. In this new environment, the use of fuel cells will become economical if their proponents can capture their benefits as small, decentralized power sources. Fuel cells and other distributed generation sources require less power distribution infrastructure (wires and transformers) because they can be sited close to where power is used. They are cleaner and quieter than conventional power generation sources, so they can be located near or inside buildings where their output is used. Because fuel cells are modular and flexible in size, they don't result in overbuilding of capacity as do large power plants. Also, they can provide power with better reliability than conventional systems (2002).
- E00-25, Hypercars, Hydrogen, and Distributed Utilities: Disruptive Technologies and Gas-Industry Strategy (PDF-1.5 MB)
- This PowerPoint presentation informed the American Gas Association's joint marketing/operations conference of how Hypercars' multiple roles, in transportation and power generation, could profoundly affect fuel markets (09 May 2000).
- T99-07, A Strategy for the Hydrogen Transition (PDF-144k)
- This paper illustrates how the careful coordination of fuel-cell commercialization in stationary and transportation applications, the use of small-scale, distributed fueling appliances, and Hypercar® vehicles combine to offer leapfrog opportunities for climate protection and the transition to hydrogen (1999).
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