Reinventing fire : bold business solutions for the new energy era / Amory B. Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute ; forewords by Marvin Odum, John W. Rowe.

Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oil-fed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Lovins, Amory B., 1947-
Corporate Author: Rocky Mountain Institute
Language:English
Published: White River Junction, Vt. : Chelsea Green Pub., [2011], ©2011.
Subjects:
Energy development > United States.
Renewable energy sources > United States.
Energy consumption > United States.
Energy policy > United States.
Industries > Energy consumption > United States.
Industries > Energy conservation > United States.
Energy consumption.
Energy development.
Energy policy.
Industries > Energy conservation.
Industries > Energy consumption.
Renewable energy sources.
United States.
USA.
Physical Description:xvii, 334 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • 1. Defossilizing fuels :
  • The true cost of oil addiction ; Oil and insecurity ; Coal's hidden costs ; Turning the supertanker ; Lighting the new fire ; No miracles required
  • 2. Transportation : fitter vehicles, smarter use :
  • Designing and building autos differently ; Using autos more productively ; The rest of the story : beyond automobiles ; Powering vehicles with cleaner energy ; Conclusion: Better mobility at lower cost without oil
  • 3. Buildings : designs for better living :
  • Understanding today's building quagmire ; The efficiency revolution : what's profitable and what's possible ; The conundrum and the challenge ; Solving the efficiency puzzle ; Conclusion: More comfort, more productivity, less energy, stronger economics
  • 4. Industry : remaking how we make things :
  • How the industrial jungle drives U.S. energy demand ; Viewing industry through the efficiency lens ; How much more productive can industry become? ; Transforming the industrial jungle ; Conclusion: Competitiveness through radical energy productivity
  • 5. Electricity : repowering prosperity :
  • Imagining the next electricity system ; Maintain : the elusiveness of "business-as-usual" ; Migrate : the conventional approach to "carbon-free" electricity ; Renew : tapping nature's inexhaustible energy sources ; Transform : a seismic shift in scale ; Four cases, one broad direction ; How do we get there from here? ; Conclusion: The path forward
  • 6. Many choices, one future :
  • Looking back from 2050 ; How can reinventing fire evolve smoothly? ; How do we seize the 2050 prize? ; Kindling the new fire.