Reinventing Fire Transportation Sector Methodology

This document provides RMI's methodology for the analysis of the transportation sector in Reinventing Fire.

 

Preface to the Chinese Edition of Winning the Oil Endgame

In the preface to the Chinese edition to Winning the Oil Endgame, Amory Lovins puts the book in context for the Chinese audience. Winning the Oil Endgame offers a strategy for ending US oil dependence.

 

Transformational Trucks: Determining the Energy Efficiency Limits of a Class-8 Tractor Trailer

This paper reports on the technological improvements of efficiency of tractor-trailers that can raise the efficiency of the vehicles dramatically. The authors argue that transformational change of tractor-trailer design can benefit economic prosperity, public health, energy security, and environmental quality.

 

Profitable GHG Reduction Through Fuel Economy

This presentation outlines practical ways that Class-8 truck fleets can realize significant fuel savings and increased profits through fuel efficiency. Focusing on components that save fuel and providing case studies that have capitalized on these opportunities, RMI's researchers demonstrate how a 25% fuel economy improvement is possible today using existing technologies that can be retrofitted onto almost any highway truck.

 

Port Innovation Workshop Final Report

In 2007, RMI conducted an innovation workshop for the Port of Seattle, Port of Tacoma, and Puget Sound Clean Air Agency with the goal of improving sustainability and energy efficiency of their cargo container operations. This report describes the efforts involved in the process and the resulting outcomes

 

Battling Fuel Waste in the Military

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 energy savings available to the military are detailed.