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American energy policy analyst

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Amory Bloch Lovins is an American writer, physicist, and former chairman/chief scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has written on energy policy and related areas for four decades, and served on the US National Petroleum Council, an oil industry lobbying group, from 2011 to 2018.

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Amory Lovins
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Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand.

Missing the Market Meltdown (May 2008)

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

Salon.com, 05/26/05

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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.

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Awards 9

2007Volvo Environment Prize
2007Blue Planet Prize
2005Benjamin Franklin Medal
1998Heinz Award
1983Right Livelihood Award
MacArthur Fellows Program
Time 100
Officer's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

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United States
Category
Scientists
Type
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Dates
Born 1947 · age 78
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