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Amory Lovins Quotes

born 1947 United States

Amory Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute.

United States
Environmentalists
Physicists

Also known as: Lovins, Amory

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Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time -- starting now

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.

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion

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.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Amory Lovins (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.