Amory Lovins is the is Chairman and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute and he is also the author and co-author of many books on renewable energy and energy efficiency. His most recent publication is called Winning the Oil Endgame is is available as a free download.
There are some fascinating quotes attributed to him such as
There are two kinds of micropower. One is co-gen and combined heat and power. That was about two-thirds of the new capacity and three-quarters of the new electricity last year. The rest was distributed or decentralized renewables, which was a $38 billion U.S. global market last year for selling equipment. That’s wind, solar, geothermal, small hydro and biomass…. Micropower surpassed nuclear power in worldwide installed capacity in 2002, and surpassed nuclear in electricity generated per year just in the last few months.
and
…new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces—all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally
In 2005 he gave the following fantastic talk at the TED conference:
The only thing I can’t understand is, if what he says is true, why aren’t we all driving around in composite cars now?
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Readers interested in this post might also like another TED talk by John Doerr, who quotes Eugene Kleiner”There is a time when panic is the appropriate response’
http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/view/id/128
Philip,
congrats on being the first commenter on this blog.
And well done on referencing John Doerr - another fantastic TED talk. There are so many to choose from…