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A 2.6X Economy with No Oil, Coal, or Nukes: Amory Lovins Explains at Xconomy Event on Feb. 16
What if you could “do” fire completely differently? Well, Reinventing Fire is the provocative title of a new book co-authored by energy visionary Amory Lovins, the cofounder, chairman, and chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute (link to www.rmi.org). Originally published at http://www.xconomy.com/boston/2012/02/13/a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216-a-2-6x-economy-with-no-oil-coal-or-nukes-amory-lovins-explains-on-216/
Natural Gas Boom Won’t Stall U.S. Renewables
The recent plummet of the natural gas spot price to a 28-month low about implications for renewable energy—the majority electrical generating component in RMI’s vision of the 2050 U.S. energy economy.
Dutch Postcode Lottery Awards RMI Nearly $1.2 Million
The Dutch Postcode Lottery has awarded Rocky Mountain Institute a gift of approximately €900,000, or $1,192,493.
Texas Grocer Slashes Energy Use
Which commercial building sector uses more energy per square foot than all but one other and is more than twice as energy-intensive as office buildings and schools? Grocery stores, second only to food service.
How Military SPIDERS Project Aids Grid Cyber-Security
In 2007, directors at the Idaho National Laboratory had their researchers play the role of computer hackers for an afternoon. Using the Internet to access an on-site electrical generator’s computer code, the “hackers” were able to reprogram the machine to destroy itself, demonstrating a key vulnerability of the U.S. electricity system.