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Drill Rigs and Battleships are the Answer, But What Was the Question?: Oil Efficiency, Economic Rationality, and Security
This paper examines how the efficient use of energy, particularly of oil, can help to create and smooth a transition beyond this one source of…
Why America Beat Iraq but Loses to Japan
This paper compares superiority of the Japanese over the U.S. in competitive business strategy to the U.S. win over Iraq in the first Gulf War.
Natural Capitalism: Chapter 2 – Reinventing the Wheels (original)
Automobiles are responsible for degrading air quality, increasing concentration of greenhouse gases, and depleting natural capital. Yet inspired car design and city planning are transforming…
Origins of the Nuclear Power Fiasco
This chapter is excerpted from the book, Energy Policy Studies. In the chapter, Amory Lovins argues that the use of nuclear power in the United…
Reducing Vulnerability: The Energy Jugular
This chapter of the book, Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics, details America’s energy security vulnerability. America’s energy system contains multiple causes of energy insecurity: complexity…