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Tapping Deep Retrofit Value
To assess a deep retrofit project, a professional must evaluate the outcomes of a deep energy retrofit on a given value element and then address…
Lessons from Australia: Reducing Solar PV Costs Through Installation Labor Efficiency
The development of Australia’s solar market, and the drastic cost reductions it saw over a short period of time, emphasize that high market demand and…
How Opposite Energy Policies Turned 3/11 into a loss for Japan and a Win for Germany
To revitalize its economy and politics, Japan needs an efficiency-and-renewable-energy hiyaku that enables the new energy economy, not protects the old one. Japanese frogs jump…
Efficient Use of Electricity
Electricity is fundamental to the quality of modern life. It is a uniquely valuable, versatile, and controllable form of energy, which can perform many tasks…
Urgent Memo to Biotech Pioneers: Life is More Than a DNA Sequence
Adapted and updated from the noted 1999 essay “A Tale of Two Botanies.” (https://rmi.org/biotechnology/twobotanies.html) Amory Lovins’s Huffington Post invited commentary on some remarks by Dr.