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Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades. He was named by Time magazine one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009.

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I once met an economist who believed that everything was fungible for money, so I suggested he enclose himself in a large bell-jar with as much money as he wanted and see how long he lasted.

Bells, Economist, Life, Long, Suggested

I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than we seem to be showing right now.

Intelligent, Life, Nature, Think, Thinking, Way

Our energy future is choice, not fate. Oil dependence is a problem we need no longer have-and it's cheaper not to. U. S. oil dependence can be eliminated by proven and attractive technologies that create wealth, enhance choice, and strengthen common security.

Create, Energy, Fate, Longer, Oil, Technology

I am a man without a furnace. My windows are insulated by 19 sheets of glass which cost less than installing a heating system.

Cost, Furnace, Glasses, Heating, Insulated, Men

Fire made us human, fossil fuels made us modern, but now we need a new fire that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

Fire, Fossil, Healthy, Needs, Secure

Many analysts now regard modest, zero, or negative growth in our rate of energy use as a realistic long-term goal.

Goal, Long, Rate, Realistic, Zero

The reason the U. S. lags so badly is that we have obsolete rules that favor big over small, supply over efficiency, and incumbents over new market entrants.

Badly, Big, Entrants, Favors, Lag, Reason

Economies are supposed to serve human ends. . not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Environmental, Good, Markets, People, Supposed, Way

Many business leaders are asking fundamental questions about what business they're in, why they are doing it and how it can be used as a means of healing human and natural communities.

Business, Healing, Human, Leadership, Life, Used

We'd find more energy in the attics of American homes (through energy conservation measures) than in all the oil buried in Alaska.

Alaska, Attics, Conservation, Home, Homes, Oil

Today we have a temporary aberration called "industrial capitalism" which is inadvertently liquidating its two most important sources of capital, the natural world and properly functioning societies. No sensible capitalist would do that.

Inspirational, Money, Nature, Societies, Temporary, World

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence.

Backup, Cells, Coal, Demand, Power, Wind

In the model that we grew up with, governments rule physical territory in which national economies function, and strong economies support hegemonic military power. In the new model, already emerging under our noses, economic decisions don't pay much attention to national sovereignty in a world where more than half of the one hundred or two hundred largest economic entities are not countries but companies.

Country, Function, Military, Pay, Strong

Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.

Energy, Improving, Resource, Saving, Technologies, Technology

If you ask the wrong question, of course, you get the wrong answer. We find in design it's much more important and difficult to ask the right question. Once you do that, the right answer becomes obvious.

Answer, Becomes, Business, Design, Inspirational

Rely on renewable energy flows that are always there whether we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on energy income, not depletable energy capital.

Energy, Income, Rely, Sun, Wind

If you ask me, it'd be little short of disastrous for us to discover a source of clean, cheap, abundant energy because of what we would do with it.

Abundant, Cheap, Disastrous, Energy, Environment, Littles

Nature does not compromise; a pelican is not a compromise between a crow and otter, it is just a pelican. Nature makes no compromises; any inefficient products are recalled to the manufacturer!

Crow, Manufacturer, Nature, Otters, Pelican, Products

A package of 35 improvements to typical industrial motor systems can save around 50% of their metered energy…with a simple payback under 16 months.

Energy, Months, Package, Save, Simple, Typical

By skimping on design, the owner gets costlier equipment, higher energy costs, and a less competitive and comfortable building; the tenants get lower productivity and higher rent and operating costs.

Cost, Costlier, Design, Energy, Rent, Skimping

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