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chapter 5
Cheaper than Free?
Climate protection would actually reduce costs, not raise them … because saving fossil fuel is a lot cheaper than buying it.
—Amory Lovins, Scientific American, 2005
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Importance: Like peak-oil's "die-off" pessimism, Amory Lovins's hyper-feel-good-optimism continues to block realistic energy policies.
Lovins's predictions:
• We could use 3% as much electricity in 2005 as in 1990 and save $200B/year.
• In 1995, he could build a cheap 300-400 mpg car with widely available technology.
• His Hypercar would dominate the market by 2011 (no prototype ever built).
• This would bring about the "end as we know them" of the automobile, oil, steel, aluminum, coal, nuclear, and electricity industries.
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Look Inside on Amazon
China has nixed caps for 15 years. Kyoto is stuck. Addiction continues. OPEC will soon return.
Environmental & energy-security forces distrust each other.
Carbonomics shows the policies of cooperation, the only path to success.
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