Profitable Solutions to Climate,Oil, and Proliferation |
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Authors: | Amory B Lovins |
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Institution: | (1) Rocky Mountain Institute, 1739 Snowmass Creek Road, Snowmass, CO 81654, USA |
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Abstract: | Protecting the climate is not costly but profitable (even if avoided climate change is worth zero), mainly because saving
fuel costs less than buying fuel. The two biggest opportunities, both sufficiently fast, are oil and electricity. The US,
for example, can eliminate its oil use by the 2040s at an average cost of 15 per barrel (200015 per barrel (2000), half by redoubled efficiency
and half by alternative supplies, and can save three-fourths of its electricity more cheaply than operating a thermal power station. Integrative design permits this by making big energy savings cheaper than small ones, turning traditionally assumed diminishing returns into empirically observed expanding returns. Such efficiency
choices accelerate climate-safe, inexhaustible, and resilient energy supply—notably the “micropower” now delivering about
a sixth of the world’s electricity and 90% of its new electricity. These cheap, fast, market-financeable, globally applicable
options offer the most effective, yet most underestimated and overlooked, solutions for climate, proliferation, and poverty. |
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Keywords: | Energy Climate Oil Proliferation Efficiency Renewables Integrative design |
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