Amory Lovins
Nuclear Socialism
In this article in The Weekly Standard, Amory Lovins explains why the current 100+% subsidies for new nuclear power plants are still unable to attract private capital, yet violate free-market principles, hazard utilities’ and taxpayers’ financial health, and should be abolished—along with all other energy subsidies.
Reply to William Tucker’s Critique of Amory Lovins’s Article “Nuclear Socialism”
On 26 October 2010, The American Spectator published William Tucker’s critical article about Amory Lovins’s “Nuclear Socialism” article in The Weekly Standard. The American Spectator didn’t acknowledge or publish Mr. Lovins’s 1 November reply, so on 14 December he posted it as a comment and RMI published it here.
Proliferation, Oil, and Climate: Solving for Pattern
In this essay, Amory Lovins discusses the problems of proliferation, oil, and climate. These three formidable problems, though treated as distinct, share common causes and solutions. New energy and climate solutions can strengthen security and prosperity by shifting strategy for the NPT Review Conference. Nuclear power’s astonishing eclipse by cheaper,…
On Proliferation, Climate, and Oil: Solving for Pattern
Proliferation, climate change, and oil dependence share both nuclear non-solutions that frustrate U.S. foreign-policy goals and non-nuclear solutions that can achieve them. This synthesis of all three issues shows how reconciling foreign with domestic energy policy can solve these and other big problems at a profit. This essay, first posted…
Nuclear Power’s Competitive Landscape
A hotly debated topic, the present and future state of nuclear power and its competitors are the subjects of this presentation by Amory Lovins at RMI2009. Lovins argues that nuclear power is losing to micropower and renewable energy choices because they are cheaper, even with carbon pricing. Likewise, energy end-use…