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The Superefficient Passive Building Frontier
This article suggests that integrated whole-building design can yield superior comfort with about three to 30 times less mechanical energy and often with lower capital…
Costing the Ultralite in Volume Production: Can Advanced Composite Bodies-in-White Be Affordable?
Advances in materials engineering, powerplant technology, systems integration, and fabrication processes now enable the automotive industry to design and prototype vehicles with improved performance and…
Apples, Oranges, and Horned Toads
This article, published in The Electricity Journal, is Amory Lovins’ response to Paul Joskow & Donald Marron’s criticism of utility demand-side management programs. Joskow and…
Fueling a Competitive Economy
This article, which originally appeared in Foreign Affairs in 1992, presents a comprehensive plan to revive America’s competitiveness using energy efficiency to prime the economic…
Profitably Stabilizing Global Climate
This piece explains that the climate can be stabilized by using energy efficiency measures without costing money. The authors reiterate their central message that saving…
