Reinvent Fire: Change Energy Use Forever

Reinventing Fire: Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era offers market-based, actionable solutions integrating transportation, buildings, industry, and electricity. Built on Rocky Mountain Institute's 30 years of research and collaboration in all four sectors, Reinventing Fire maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050 but needing no oil, no coal, no nuclear energy, one-third less natural gas, and no new inventions. This would cost $5 trillion less than business-as-usual—in addition to the value of avoiding fossil fuels' huge but uncounted external costs.

Dig Deeper With Our Series of Core Sector Presentations:

View the Reinventing Fire Transporation video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1icbBaBNCBM

View the Reinventing Fire Buildings video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yIi4aDCDrO8

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Reinventing Fire
• New Energy Era
• Amory Lovins
• Rocky Mountain Institute
• Business

[oracle2world]

The most efficient way to store and transport energy on our earth is liquid hydrocarbons. Just chemistry 101. Having a freebie oxidizer (21% atmospheric oxygen) is the key.

[MDofGreen]

@snosamie6 I would be glad to do be a part of that side project.

[snosamie6]

@MDofGreen Maybe that could be a new goal, a new side project? Do it, RMI!

[MDofGreen]

It's wonderful that RMI is measuring the feasibility of renewables, but what they really need to be putting their minds to is figuring out how to beat the corporate lobbying system while educating people to put the political pressure necessary to make a change. We already know renewable energy is feasible, but the roadblocks need to be knocked down.

[350orbust]

@Runaway1956 - not corn biofuels, but algae biofuels are the answer. That's what the U.S. military is looking at.

[Runaway1956]

@timothyplumley I'm all for hemp. I've read that it's a GREAT source of oil, or biofuels. Hempen textiles cost no more than cotton, and lasts about 7 times as long. ANY natural fiber is better than synthetics in the textile industry! (The US Navy found that to be especially true where fire might be a hazard!) Medicinal uses are argued, but all the cons seem to be that the pharmaceutical companies might lose money on home grown remedies.

[Runaway1956]

Biofuels? I thought that even Al Gore had backpedaled on that. Taking agricultural land away from food production, to produce biofuels, raises the cost of food. That's alright for the wealthy, and for people like Americans who have a welfare system to fall back on. But, it causes needless problems in poorer nations that depend on our foreign aid just to survive.

[Gantzer1]

The regulations are to stop little guys and help big guys maintain their positions, its no secret that Unions or Corporations will fight to maintain profits and jobs respectively in the light of better systems that outmode them, this is the basic core truth of any monotary economic system, that they are based on predatory behavior. Thow up one blockade and the intrests will find away under over or around it to get their monopolies back.

[tamckissick]

@cwujek Sorry if it disappoints you. I began that with TONS of technical info and no one would read it. People said to dumb it down, add bullets. I did and the same. Now with this level of hype, which I despise, I'm got more to view it. Those that read it all the way through often contacted me directly and ended up donating when I answered their questions.

Go find me a non-revolutionary equivalent Stirling engine... ANYWHERE. They don't exist. ...or even compete for under $30k alone!

[timothyplumley]

Look, hemp is our answer to this economic, and societal problems, not marijuana but hemp. We keep denying it, but it could bring back production to this country in so many clean ways.not to miss other key nutritional values of hemp.this is our answer to clean energy, and cleaner earth, healthier children and adults, and jobs for americans again.