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- E06-02,
How Innovative Technologies, Business Strategies, and Policies Can Dramatically Enhance Energy Security and Prosperity (PDF-400k)
- This invited Senate Energy Committee testimony by RMI's CEO Amory Lovins tersely outlines how a least-cost national energy strategy can strengthen the United States and make the world safer—and how current national energy policy has unwittingly become a major threat to security (07 March 2006).
- E03-06, Towering Design Flaws, The Globe and Mail (PDF-90k)
- Blackouts come from dim planning decisions—a brittle, centralized grid and inefficient pricing policies, says U.S. energy guru Amory Lovins. The usual suspects—politicians, regulators, deregulators, utilities, and environmentalists—were promptly rounded up when the Aug. 14 blackout lost 61 billion watts of capacity in nine seconds. Yet the real culprit was none of the above—just as in 1965, 1977, and other regional blackouts described in a 1981 report for the Pentagon, Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security. The real cause is the overcentralized power grid.
By Amory Lovins. This article appeared in The Globe and Mail (www.globeandmail.com) (21 August 2003).
- Eastern Power Outage Unfortunate but Entirely Predictable (PDF-344k)
- RMI Press Release: Aug. 14 Event Offers Wake-Up Call for U.S. Energy Policymakers—Calling the massive August 14 power outages in the Northeastern United States "a wake-up call to decision makers," officials at the twenty-year-old Rocky Mountain Institute said Americans should look to distributed, diverse, and resilient clean technologies to power their industries, homes, and communities. America's existing system—based on a hundred years' worth of heavily centralized generation and distribution policies—can trigger a cascading series of errors that leaves us vulnerable and should be corrected. (14 August 2003)
- S03-04, U.S. Energy Security Facts (PDF-56k)
- Rocky Mountain Institute's compendium of concise, documented facts about oil and security for 2000, a typical year (02 June 2003).
- S02-05, Energy Security: It Takes More Than Drilling, The Christian Science Monitor (PDF-12k)
- The savagery of Sept. 11 confirmed that both Mideast oil dependence and fragile infrastructure threaten national security. Replacing Mideast oil is vital, but not by substituting equally or more vulnerable domestic sources. Domestic energy systems aren't secure unless they're designed to make large-scale failures impossible and local failures benign. This article, by R. James Woolsey, Amory B. Lovins, and L. Hunter Lovins, appeared in The Christian Science Monitor (www.csmonitor.com) (March 2002).
- S01-27, RMI's Quest for Solutions—Rethinking Energy Security (PDF-225k)
- An introduction to least-cost energy security for a general audience, presented at the Aspen Center for Physics to RMI's Quest for Solutions quarterly meeting (16 December 2001).
- S01-25, Critical Issues in Domestic Energy Vulnerability, Alliance to Save Energy Summit (PDF-515k)
- On 25 October 2001, the Alliance to Save Energy (www.ase.org) held an outstanding high-level Energy Summit in Washington, D.C., keynoted by Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham and led off by Senate Energy Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman. Amory Lovins presented this concluding talk in the final panel, "New Dimensions in Energy Security," led by former CIA Director R. James Woolsey, Esq. (25 October 2001).
- S01-06, Critical Issues in Domestic Energy Vulnerability, Aspen Clean Energy Roundtable (PDF-280k)
- In the more dangerous world after 11 September 2001, the vulnerability of centralized energy systems—first analyzed in the Lovinses' 1981 Pentagon study Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security—reinforces the economic and environmental arguments for a more efficient, diverse, distributed, renewable energy system. These handout graphics are Amory Lovins's presentation to the Montreux Energy Conference/Aspen Clean Energy Roundtable (08 October 2001).
- S84-23, Reducing Vulnerability: The Energy Jugular (PDF-98k)
- RMI's 1981 Pentagon study Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security is summarized for security professionals (1984).
- S83-08, The Fragility of Domestic Energy, The Atlantic Monthly (PDF-312k)
- This lay summary of Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security shows that our complex, interdependent systems for the production and delivery of energy are vulnerable to simple but devastating acts of sabotage. It also shows that a more efficient, diverse, dispersed, renewable energy system can make major failures impossible. This article appeared in The Atlantic Monthly (November 1983).
- S82-03, Brittle Power: Energy Strategy for National Security (PDF-1.2MB)
- Fear of further terrorist threats has lead many people to ask that we re-release our 1982 book Brittle Power. Unfortunately it is still very current, even though it has been out of print for some years. Because Brittle Power has never existed in an electronic form, we've had it retyped, and it now appears on our website (1982).
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