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Industrial Electric Productivity: Myths, Barriers, & Solutions
There is an enormous gap in the electric productivity of the nation. If the country achieved the normalized industrial electric productivity of the top ten…
Nuclear Power: Climate Fix or Folly?
This semitechnical article, summarizing a detailed and documented technical paper (see “The Nuclear Illusion” (2008)), compares the cost, climate protection potential, reliability, financial risk, market…
Sense and Response: A Bioclimatic Dialogue of Place
Preindustrial societies had an intimate connection to their environments in part because survival was dependent on a constructive understanding. This resulted in fantastic forms of…
Does a Big Economy Need Big Power Plants
Amory Lovins wrote this piece as an invited blog for the New York Times “Freakonomics” column in 2009. In it, he argues for the use…
“New Nuclear Reactors, Same Old Story”
The dominant type of new nuclear power plant, light-water reactors (LWRs), proved unfinanceable in the robust 2005–2008 capital market, despite new U.S. subsidies approaching or…