RMI Outlet

Energy: The Avoidable Oil Crisis

This article, published after the oil shocks of the 1970s, details strategies for reducing oil shortages and keeping costs low, thereby preventing another oil crisis.

Origins of the Nuclear Power Fiasco

This chapter is excerpted from the book, Energy Policy Studies. In the chapter, Amory Lovins argues that the use of nuclear power in the United…

Hiding the True Costs of Energy Sources

Nuclear Follies

This unpublished letter to Forbes responded to James Cook’s famous cover-story article of the same name about what the magazine called “the largest managerial disaster…

Reducing Vulnerability: The Energy Jugular

This chapter of the book, Nuclear Arms: Ethics, Strategy, Politics, details America’s energy security vulnerability. America’s energy system contains multiple causes of energy insecurity: complexity…