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Energy and Resources - Energy Efficiency, 27 Items
Journal or Magazine Article, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2010-04_keepingthelightson
This article discusses the new electricity paradigm required of electric utilities in the face of climate change, energy security concerns, and disruptive technologies. The new paradigm for utilities is based on energy efficiency, demand response, renewables, energy storage, and distributed generation.
Report or White Paper, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2010-10_10xEPrinciples
Designers often assume that radical efficiency is too expensive. Yet RMI’s Factor Ten Engineering initiative demonstrates that very large energy and resource savings can be very profitable across a wide range of applications. Factor Ten Engineering uses such innovations to transform design and engineering practice, via whole-system thinking and integrative design. This document outlines the design principles of Factor Ten Engineering.
Report or White Paper, 2010
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2010-09_IntegrativeDesign
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 different questions that change the design logic. Examples described in this paper for buildings, industry, and vehicles show that optimizing whole systems for multiple benefits, not disjunct components for single benefits, often makes gains in end- use efficiency much bigger and cheaper than conventionally supposed. Indeed, integrative design can often yield expanding rather than the normal diminishing returns to investments in energy efficiency, making very large (even order-of-magnitude) energy savings cost less than small or no savings.
Report or White Paper, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2009-08_AssessingElectricProductivityGap
This paper explores how effectively the United States has used electricity and compares energy efficiency implementation by state. This paper analyzes state-level electric productivity to determine which states are the most productive with their electricity.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2009-12_ClimateEightConvenientTruths
In this article from Roll Call, Amory Lovins provides eight arguments for congress to pass climate change legislation.
Conference Proceedings, 2009
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/2009-18_IndustrialElectricProductivity
There is an enormous gap in the electric productivity of the nation. Increasing industrial electric productivity is a significant near-term opportunity that can reduce electricity costs, carbon dioxide emissions per unit of output, and increase profits. RMI believes that increasing industrial electric productivity is an untapped source of value, and is important to the longevity of industry in the United States.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2008
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E08-02_GettingOffOilRecentLeaps
This article is a 2008 update on the progress of RMI's 2005 effort to implement Winning the Oil Endgame. In this article, Amory Lovins provides an update on recent progress in many of the sectors targeted in Winning the Oil Endgame. He also describes the steps required to implement the strategy fully in the auto industry.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2008
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E08-04_ForgetNuclear
This article compares the cost, climate protection potential, reliability, financial risk, market success, deployment speed, and energy contribution of new nuclear power with those of its low- or no-carbon competitors.
Report or White Paper, 2008
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/E08-01_NuclearIllusion
This paper challenges the view that nuclear power is competitive, necessary, reliable, secure, and affordable. The authors explain why nuclear power is uncompetitive, unneeded, and obsolete.
Journal or Magazine Article, 2007
http://www.rmi.org/rmi/Library/C07-07_WhatCanWeDo
In this series published in Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Amory Lovins joins three other atomic experts in discussing ideas for how to curb carbon dioxide emissions, reduce global temperatures, and sustain economic growth.