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Integrative Design: A Disruptive Source of Expanding Returns to Investments in Energy Efficiency
This paper summarizes the principle of integrative design. Integrative design rigorously applies orthodox engineering principles, but achieves radically more energy- and resource-efficient results by asking…
Renewables, Micropower, and the Transforming Electricity Landscape
This article, published in RMI’s Spring 2010 Solutions Journal, describes micropower’s acceleration in taking over the global market long dominated by central thermal stations. This…
Profitable Solutions to Climate, Oil, and Proliferation
Protecting the climate is not costly but profitable (even if avoided climate change is worth zero), mainly because saving fuel costs less than buying fuel.
Presentation of Achieving Low-Cost Solar PV: Industry Workshop Recommendations for Near-Term Balance-of-System Cost Reductions
This presentation provides a high-level overview of key technical and process best practices that emerged from RMI’s June 2010 “Solar PV Balance of System” design…
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…
