Renewable energy is attracting Wall Street but nuclear power isn't. Why? Simple economics. Capitalists have already scuttled Patrick Moore’s claimed nuclear revival. New U.S. subsidies of about $13 billion per plant (roughly a plant’s capital cost) haven’t lured Wall Street to invest. Instead, the decentralized...
To: AUTO EDITORS Contact: Claes Sjoberg of Tomorrow Media, +46 70-662 64 71, forVolvo Cars of North America; or Linda Hagstrom of Volvo EventManagement, +46 31-66 91 04 GOTEBORG, Sweden, Nov. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the world's mostwell known advocates for energy efficiency, Amory B. Lovins, chiefscientist of...
To: ENVIRONMENTAL EDITORS Contact: Cameron Burns of Rocky Mountain Institute, +1-970-927-3851, cameron@rmi.org SNOWMASS, Colo., Aug. 7 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rocky MountainInstitute today announced that the organization's Chairman and ChiefScientist, Amory B. Lovins, has won the Volvo Environment Prize, oneof the world's top environmental awards. The award comes only a monthafter...
Amory B. Lovins talks big. He proposes to wean America off oil by the 2040s, touts ultralight cars and tells some of the most powerful corporate executives in the world, like those at Wal-Mart and Texas Instruments, how to behave more efficiently. But perhaps a former Oxford don--one who built...
Amory B. Lovins talks big. He proposes to wean America off oil by the 2040s, touts ultralight cars and tells some of the most powerful corporate executives in the world, like those at Wal-Mart and Texas Instruments, how to behave more efficiently. But perhaps a former Oxford don--one who built...
To: AND POLITICAL EDITORS Contact: Cory Lowe of Rocky Mountain Institute, +1-970-927-7345,clowe@rmi.org SNOWMASS, Colo., June 21 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rocky MountainInstitute today announced that the organization's Chairman and ChiefScientist, Amory B. Lovins, has won the prestigious Blue PlanetPrize, one of the world's top environmental awards. "This is a wonderful...
To: TECHNOLOGY EDITORS Contact: Cameron Burns of Rocky Mountain Institute, +1-970-927-7338, cameron@rmi.org SNOWMASS, Colo., March 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Rocky MountainInstitute today announced the appointment of high-tech industryveteran Michael Potts to head the noted "think and do tank." Pottssucceeds Amory B. Lovins, 59, who moves up to become RMI's Chairmanand...
To: National Desk, Environment Reporter Contact: Cory Lowe of Rocky Mountain Institute, 970-927-3851, ext.345 or 970-927-7345 direct or clowe@rmi.org; Web: http://www.rmi.org SNOWMASS, Colo., Nov. 20 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Rocky MountainInstitute CEO and founder Amory B. Lovins announced that RMI'sleadership team is expanding to allow him a more active strategicrole in...
Your conclusion that a 100-mpg car ("100 MPG," Aug. 2006) would be sluggish and priced at $50,000 to $60,000 is wrong, as illustrated by the 114-mpg uncompromised mid-size fuel cell Revolution SUV that my team designed in 2000. Our 2004 Pentagon study, "Winning the Oil Game,"...
THE STRATEGIES USED BY CHEMICAL ENGINEERS TO ACHIEVE EFFICIENT DESIGNS may vary, but they probably reflect the methodologies we learned in engineering school. So, it is only natural that we use them almost intuitively in the work place. We pride ourselves on the fact that back are able to solve...
In 1850, most homes in the United States were lit by lamps that burned whale oil. As demand rose, supply dwindled--whales became shy and scarce--and prices for whale oil climbed. Then alternative fuels such as smokeless, odorless coal-kerosene began to sweep the market. By 1859, when Edwin Drake struck oil...
In E's May/June 2003 Advice and Dissent, Jim Bell of San Diego suggested a "fatal flaw" in the proposed hydrogen economy: a reduction in the planet's water inventory as molecular hydrogen is lost to outer space. But this does not seem a realistic concern. ...
In E's May/June 2003 Advice and Dissent, Jim Bell of San Diego suggested a "fatal flaw" in the proposed hydrogen economy: a reduction in the planet's water inventory as molecular hydrogen is lost to outer space. But this does not seem a realistic concern. Molecular hydrogen is reactive...
To download high-resolution, print-ready JPEG images, click on the thumbnail image above. WARNING: these images are very large (800K+) Click here for caption Energy Editors/Business Editors/Automotive Writers Hannover Fair 2004 NOTE TO MEDIA: Multimedia...
America's security is threatened by dependence on both Middle East oil and fragile domestic infrastructure--such as the Trans-Alaska Pipeline System TAPS. Replacing Middle East oil is vital--but not with equally vulnerable domestic sources that displace and delay abundant, secure, cheaper, and faster alternatives. Extremely concentrated energy flows reward...
Gifford Pinchot says business schools have fostered an obsession with maximizing shareholder value at the expense of employees, community, and the planet. That's why he started the Bainbridge Island Graduate Institute BGI near Seattle, where students will study environmental sustainability and social responsibility in the context of entrepreneurship...
Byline: Rocky Mountain Institute SNOWMASS, Colo., June 26 AScribe Newswire -- Responding to rising public interest in hydrogen as a likely replacement for oil, Rocky Mountain Institute today published a documented primer on hydrogen to clarify the abundant conflicting, confusing, and often ill-informed...
Amory B. Lovins co-founded the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute RMI in 1982, and it has grown from a small energy-related think tank into a major global research institution with more than 45 full-time staff. The peripatetic and multiple-award-winning Lovins travels the world spreading his visions of...
Amory B. Lovins co-founded the Colorado-based Rocky Mountain Institute RMI in 1982, and it has grown from a small energy-related think tank into a major global research institution with more than 45 full-time staff. The peripatetic and multiple-award-winning Lovins travels the world spreading his visions of a sustainable future, and...
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