Amory Lovins
Hydrogen Economy: Not So Difficult—Without Nuclear Power
This letter was written to Nature. In the letter, Amory Lovins argues against those who say that a hydrogen economy is impractical without an expansion of nuclear power.
FreedomCAR, Hypercar, and Hydrogen
In 2002, Amory Lovins gave this presentation to the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Science. The presentation is focused on the the American automakers and the U.S. Department of Energy’s FreedomCAR Program. He presents options that create energy efficient cars and airplanes, mostly through the use of lighter materials.
Fuzzy Math
This document includes a letter by Lucian Platt written to Foreign Affairs magazine in response to Amory Lovins and L. Hunter Lovins’ article from 2001, “Fool’s Gold in Alaska”. In that article, the authors argue against drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. In this response, Platt accuses the authors…
Mobilizing Energy Solutions
In this article in The American Prospect, Amory Lovins and Hunter Lovins argue that the “energy problem” is not that we are running out of it. By defining the problem as one of lack of supply and the answer as forcing more traditional supply, policy has undercut the real solution…
Small is Profitable
Small is Profitable describes 207 ways in which the size of electrical resources”–devices that make, save, or store electricity–affects their economic value. It finds that properly considering the economic benefits of “distributed” (decentralized) electrical resources typically raises their value by a large factor, often approximately tenfold by improving system planning,…