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From Deep Crisis, Profound Change
The Ukraine crisis shows that we must now act with speed, agility, coordination, and an integrated vision to create a prosperous climate-safe and energy-secure world.
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Six Solutions to Battery Mineral Challenges
Claims that it’s immensely destructive if not impossible to find enough minerals to make all the batteries that a global fleet of EVs will need are often exaggerated. They can become manageable if we include…
Works by Amory Lovins
Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked
How renewable energy and new methods of energy management and storage can lead to a clean, reliable electricity grid.
Breakthrough Technologies
Reality Check: Greener, Friendlier Alternatives Exist for Rare Minerals in Batteries
Accessible alternatives to “critical materials” can make excellent EV batteries, solar cells, and wind turbines.
Works by Amory Lovins
Decarbonizing Our Toughest Sectors—Profitably
In this decade, a rich stew of new technologies, materials, design methods, financial techniques, and business models, along with smart policies and aggressive investments, could revitalize, relocate, or displace some of the world’s most powerful…
Strategic Insights
Profitably Decarbonizing Heavy Transport and Industrial Heat
Transforming the “harder-to-abate” sectors of heavy transport and industrial heat Is not uniquely hard and can be lucrative.
General Energy
Geothermal Power’s Competitive Landscape
A transcript of Amory's address for Pivot2020, a geothermal energy event hosted by the Geothermal Entrepreneurship Organization at the University of Texas at Austin and the International Geothermal Association.
Breakthrough Technologies
The Aviation Efficiency Revolution
This 13 May 2019 invited keynote for the annual sustainability conference of the global aviation industry’s trade group ATAG seeks to increase the industry’s ambition, reduce its risks, and improve its competitiveness and profitability, without…
Works by Amory Lovins
Oil: Revenge Of The Negabarrels
Never before, say shell-shocked oil traders, has the world price of crude oil fallen so far. Well, not since the early 1980s, anyway. Or was it 2008? Or 2014? Look at the 50-year history:…
Breakthrough Technologies
Recalibrating Climate Prospects
A.B. Lovins, D. Ürge-Vorsatz, L. Mundaca, D.M. Kammen, & J.W. Glassman, “Recalibrating Climate Prospects,” Envir. Res. Lett. 14 120201, doi:10.1088/1748-9326/ab55ab. Reposted under Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 license. A bracing antidote to the “doomism” lately fashionable…