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Unpublished letter to the Economist
Your lament for Europe’s money-losing electric utilities, pickled in their own brine, begs the question whether old, long-and often still-subsidized oligopolies should be bailed out…
Solar energy: Can solar energy save the world?
The Moderator: Geoff Carr. Defending the Motion: Richard M. Swanson—Photovoltaics prices have declined 50% in the past five years, and plans are in place for…
Reinventing Fire: Three Energy Gamechangers for China and the World
In this article from China Policy Review, Amory Lovins and Jon Creyts discuss how three mutually reinforcing gamechangers have emerged as important enablers of China’s…
The Economics of a U.S. Civilian Nuclear Phase-out
In the United States, which trades three-fifths of its electricity in competitive markets, the prohibitive capital cost of new nuclear power plants ensures that only…
The Atlantic Mann Rebuttal
This article, published in RMISolutions, describes the efforts by RMI and Amory Lovins to work with the American military to combat energy waste. The potential…