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• Who Are You Going To Believe - The Leader of A Company With an Obligation to Supply Electricity or a Gadfly Like Amory Lovins

  Lloyd Yates, the CEO of Progress Energy, has published a terrific op-ed piece in the Charlotte News-Observer titled Coming clean on coal that clearly explains why his company has chosen to shut down coal fired power plants that supply 30% of its current electricity demand. More importantly, he explains HOW his company will continue to meet the needs of its customers for electricity in the coming years... Posted Dec 05 2009, 12:34 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins, Joe Romm, nuclear versus gas, Soft Energy Path

• Challenging Amory Lovins Critique of Stewart Brand's Support For Nuclear On Gristmill

  Last week, I got involved in a discussion on Grist following the publication of an article by Amory Lovins titled Stewart Brand's Nuclear Enthusiasm Falls Short on Facts and Logic . As a long time skeptic when it comes to words published by Amory Lovins on the topic of nuclear energy and its economic competitiveness, I thought I could add some value to the discussion. Steve Kirsch, the guest author... Posted Oct 19 2009, 05:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• Conservation is Not the Same as Supply

  I just read a pithy quote that distills part of my beef with the Amory Lovins school of energy thought - he makes statements about energy supply costs that imply that there is no difference between a kilowatt-hour avoided and a kilowatt-hour supplied and that there is no difference between an intermittent kilowatt supply and one that is steady and reliable. Here is the quote from Two COLs for new US... Posted Sep 20 2008, 06:13 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• Open Letter to an Amory Lovins Disciple

  Several days ago, I blogged about an article in The Economist that profiled Amory Lovins and talked about his "frugal" vision for the world's energy supply system. In the thread of comments attached to that post a reader named Gordon provided commentary indicating that he was a true believer in the "soft energy path" that Lovins has been advocating for nearly 40 years. In response... Posted Sep 11 2008, 05:24 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• I Never Drink Kool-Aid and Never Serve it Either

  After Amy Goodman interviewed Amory Lovins for Democracy Now, she wrote a blog post on TruthDig.com titled Don’t Drink the Nuclear Kool-Aid . I do not think that Amy is one of those bloggers who notices when others have something to say about their posts; she apparently is not even one who participates in the discussion that her post generates. However, on the off chance that she might occasionally... Posted Jul 19 2008, 04:32 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• Quick teaser - check back for a story about Amory Lovins and his continued purposeful deceptions

  I am off to my day job now, but I need to point out that Amy Goodman at DemocracyNow.org interviewed Amory Lovins on July 16. He was once again introduced as the "Chief Scientist" of Rocky Mountain Instituted and he once again went through his standard litany of deceptions including a denial that nuclear can reduce oil consumption, a description of micro power that ignores the fact that most... Posted Jul 18 2008, 05:27 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• Lovins and His Nuclear Blindness - Great series on NEI Nuclear Notes

  David Bradish at NEI Nuclear Notes has produced an insightful series of blogs about Amory Lovins and His Nuclear Illusion. The posts enter into a rather detailed analysis of some of the assumptions, deceptions, fuzzy mathematics and ill-founded conclusions reached by my least favorite energy prognosticator. There is something close to lying about a two time college dropout whose organization's... Posted Jun 13 2008, 05:39 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins

• Edison Mission Energy cancels order for 150 large wind turbines

  I noticed a short article on Page B2 of the June 10, 2008 issue of the Wall Street Journal titled Edison Unit Cancels Suzlon Order . Something tells me that you will not hear Amory Lovins or Joseph Romm mentioning the technical issue discussed in the article. A quick Google search leads me to believe that this story is not being told in many US based media outlets; the only one I could find in addition... Posted Jun 10 2008, 08:30 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: Amory Lovins