Everything Amory Lovins said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Lovins: New Renewables Beat Existing Thermal Plant Operating Costs Globally
“And now, in ninety-odd percent of the world, it's cheaper to build new solar and wind power than to build a fossil-fueled or nuclear power plant, and in upwards of half the world, it's cheaper than just running those thermal plants, even if building them costs…”
Lovins: Global peak fossil fuel use almost certainly occurred in 2019
“The result is that peak fossil fuel almost certainly occurred in 2019, globally.”
Lovins: Russia's war will push global fossil fuel use into steep decline
“Putin's war really puts the last nails in that coffin, turning what was usually forecast as a bumpy plateau of fossil fuel use for most of the rest of this decade into a steep decline.”
Lovins: European Purchases Of Russian Natural Gas Will Disappear By 2023
“It now looks like the purchases of Russian gas will be cut by two-thirds this year alone, and probably be gone by Next summer, at latest, next autumn”
Lovins: Pipe friction optimization can save one-fifth of world electricity
“You have this order of magnitude energy saving sufficient to save about a fifth of the world's electricity or half the coal-fired electricity, and you recover your investment in typically under a year fixing old buildings and factories or instantly in new ones…”
Lovins: Omitting Mechanical Heating Systems Makes Passive Solar Cheaper Overall
“But this is a passive solar banana farm because we don't have a heating system, and it's cheaper to build that way because you save more construction costs leaving out the heating system than you pay extra. For the efficiency techniques that got rid of the hea…”
Lovins: Energy Efficiency and Demand Flexibility Resources Are 3x Larger Than Estimated
“The big surprise for many is that the efficiency resource and what you might call flexi-watts, using electricity timely in a way that doesn't inconvenience the user, those resources are about three times bigger than had been thought.”
Lovins: At least half the global energy transition will come from efficiency
“I would expect, ah, probably half, maybe more, of the energy security, climate, health, and economic solution to our energy problems
It's gonna come from efficient use, the rest from clean supply.”
Lovins: Low-friction pipe design is absent from engineering textbooks and climate models
“And yet this is, this method is not yet in any
Government study, industry forecast, climate model, standard engineering textbook.
Why not?
Because it's not a technology, which is what most policymakers look for.
It's a design method”
Lovins: Energy Used Per Dollar Of Real GDP Dropped 61% Since 1982
“Well, since then, we've actually cut the energy used to make a dollar of real GDP by 61%, and that barely scratches the surface of how much efficiency is available and worth buying.”
Lovins: Commercial Boilers Reduce Heat Pump Installation Bottlenecks Over Single-Family Retrofits
“You will also relieve the installation bottlenecks not having enough skilled installers to put a bunch of heat pumps in quickly if you focus first on apartment houses, commercial buildings, the things that have big furnaces and boilers burning a lot of Russian…”
Lovins: European LNG competition incentivizes Asia to conserve energy
“When Europe gets in a bidding war with Asia for cargoes of LNG in the short run, that means that Japan and China and so on see the same price as in Europe. So they are equally incentivized to save oil, gas, gas-fired electricity.”
Amory Lovins
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