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Amory Bloch Lovins (Washington D. C., 13 de noviembre de 1947) [3] es un físico y ambientalista estadounidense, presidente y jefe científico del Rocky Mountain Institute. Durante cuatro décadas ha trabajado en política energética y temas relacionados.
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Lovins was born in Washington, DC. His father, Gerald H. Lovins worked as an engineer and his mother, Miriam Lovins, worked as a social services administrator. Lovins is the brother of Julie Beth Lovins, a computational linguist who wrote the first stemmingalgorithm for word matching. In 1964, Lovins entered Harvard College as a National Merit Scho...
Friends of the Earth
Each summer from 1965 to 1981, Lovins guided mountaineering trips and photographed the White Mountains of New Hampshire, contributing photographs to At Home in the Wild: New England's White Mountains. In 1971, he wrote about Wales' endangered Snowdonia National Park in the book, Eryri, the Mountains of Longing, commissioned by David Brower, president of Friends of the Earth.Lovins spent about a decade as British representative for Friends of the Earth. During the early 1970s, Lovins became in...
Rocky Mountain Institute
By 1978, Lovins had published six books and consulted widely. In 1982, he and his wife, Hunter Lovins founded Rocky Mountain Institute, based in Snowmass, Colorado. Together with a group of colleagues, the Lovinses fostered efficient resource use and sustainable development. Lovins clients have included many Fortune 500 companies, real-estate developers, and utilities. Public-sector clients have included the OECD, UN, Resources for the Future, many national governments, and 13 US states. Lovi...
Soft energy paths
Amory Lovins published an article in Foreign Affairs called "Energy Strategy: The Road Not Taken?" in 1976. Lovins argued that the United States had arrived at an important crossroads and could take one of two paths. The first, supported by U.S. policy, promised a future of steadily increasing reliance on fossil fuels and nuclear fission, and had serious environmental risks. The alternative, which Lovins called "the soft path", favored "benign" sources of renewable energy like wind power and...
Nuclear power limitations
Lovins wrote (as an attempt to balance the inherently intermittent nature of solar and wind) that nuclear power plants are intermittent in that they will sometimes fail unexpectedly, often for long periods of time. For example, in the United States, 132 nuclear plants were built, and 21% were permanently and prematurely closed due to reliability or cost problems, while another 27% have at least once completely failed for a year or more.[citation needed] The remaining U.S. nuclear plants produ...
Negawatt revolution
A negawatt is a unit in watts of power saved. It is basically the opposite of a watt. Amory Lovins has advocated a "negawatt revolution", arguing that utility customers don't want kilowatt-hoursof electricity; they want energy services such as hot showers, cold beer, lit rooms, and spinning shafts, which can come more cheaply if electricity is used more efficiently.
Institutions and energy specialists have criticized various positions taken by Amory Lovins. One of the main points of contention is the assumption by the RMI of a linear relation between improvements in energy efficiency and reductions in aggregate energy consumption. The Jevons Paradoxsuggests that improvements in energy efficiency actually lead ...
Amory Lovins was elected a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1984, of the World Academy of Art and Science in 1988, and of the World Business Academy in 2001. He has received the Right Livelihood Award, the Blue Planet Prize, Volvo Environment Prize, the 4th Annual Heinz Award in the Environment in 1998,and the Na...
In 1979 Amory Lovins married L. Hunter Sheldon, a lawyer, forester, and social scientist. They separated in 1989 and divorced in 1999.In 2007, he married Judy Hill, a fine-art landscape photographer.
This is a list of books which are authored or co-authored by Amory B. Lovins: 1. World Energy Strategies: Facts, Issues, and Options London: Friends of the Earth Ltd. for Earth Resources Research Ltd., 1975. ISBN 978-0-88410-601-2. 2. The Energy Controversy: Soft Path Questions and Answers (1979) ISBN 978-0-913890-22-6 3. Non-Nuclear Futures: The C...
Amory Lovin's presentation to the Berlin Energy Transition Dialogue 2016, March 17–18, 2016Cofounder and Chairman Emeritus. Physicist Amory Lovins (1947– ) is cofounder (1982) and chairman emeritus of RMI, which he served as chief scientist 2007–19 and now supports as a contractor and trustee; energy advisor to major firms and governments in 70+ countries for 45+ years; author of 31 books and more than 700 papers; and an ...
Business Review (Núm. 187) · Estrategia · Febrero 2010. En las conferencias sobre sostenibilidad y empresa de THEA-LIST, Amory Lovins es el ponente al que todos los demás hacen referencia cuando están en el escenario. Es la piedra de toque, el talismán que, figuradamente, todos sostienen en sus manos para reafirmar sus propias ideas sobre ...
- Michael S. Hopkins
Jimmy Langman, editor ejecutivo de Patagon Journal, se encontró con Lovins durante su viaje y aquí presentamos extractos de su conversación sobre el futuro de la energía renovable, qué está mal con el sector energético de Chile y cómo solucionarlo.
El físico estadounidense Amory Lovins ha dedicado toda su vida profesional a la promoción de las energías renovables y las medidas de eficiencia energética. Desde la publicación de su artículo “Energy strategy: The road not taken?” (Estrategia Energética: ¿El Camino no Tomado?) en la revista Foreign Affairs en 1976 que lo lanzó a ...
In 2009, Time named him one of the world’s 100 most influential people, and Foreign Policy, one of the 100 top global thinkers. His most recent books, mostly coauthored, include Natural Capitalism (1999), Small Is Profitable (2002), Winning the Oil Endgame (2004), The Essential Amory Lovins (2011), and Reinventing Fire (2011).
