Senseless Energy Policy- Amory Lovins

Physicist and world renowned energy policy expert Amory Lovins' solar powered home is shown. Interview covers comments on US energy policy, and the practicality of becoming independent of oil by 2040.

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News & Politics

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• Solar
• home
• batteries
• Energy Independence
• Oil
• companies
• Lovins
• alternative energy
• policy
• climate change

[juscurious]

@duck24x

[duck24x]

@juscurious They're called batteries, to store the power from the sun & wind. Maybe in the 1920s we didn't have such batteries, but we've got them now.

[juscurious]

We didn't have big government back in the 1920's. EVs weren't feasible because the battery technology wasn't there. Thomas Edison tried but finally concluded it wasn't feasible. Green Energy is a joke and not feasible. The Sun only has 6 good hours on the best day. Besides how would you power a solar airplane? The Wind doesn't blow all the time. Sometimes you can have days without sun or wind. What do you do then? Go without power? You really don't know very much about energy do you?

[duck24x]

If big government hadn't trashed EVs in the 1920s and earlier, and had invested in an infrastructure that supports it (solar plants, wind, etc) and been given the billions in subsidies that oil, coal & nuclear get, then you (and I) would have jobs right now in the green field and you'd be singing a different tune, because your job would depend on it.

Solar should be massively subsidized. Nuclear should be outlawed.

I agree - ethanol is a stupid waste.

[duck24x]

Well, just like everybody thinks that they are a climate "expert", even though they have not worked in the field of climatology as the scientists who have published peer-reviewed research for the IPCC & NASA have, then Lovins has the right to be equally respected on the subject of energy & transportation even though he hasn't had a job in the field.

Having a job in a field proves nothing about what COULD be.

[duck24x]

There is no such thing as a "free market". We have reverse socialism on this planet: big gov't giving free property and tax-breaks only to the least deserving and biggest corporations, and big armies and police forces defending wealth inequities. Avory Lovin's energy ideas will work only when implemented by force. Same is true of true socialism. Whether his ideas "make money" in the market place is irrelevant to whether they "work". ALL corporations "work" only by gov't-backed-up force.

[Whaaat2008]

So if the Chevy Volt has these problems solved and Amory lovins is just saying that we need to invest in these technologies and Chevy just did that, the HOW IS AMORY WRONG? ALL we need to do it put our money and attention behind these technologies and we'll figure it all out! Can you doubt that? Most of these problems are solved, they are just waiting for investors. Investors don't invest when they can't make money and they can't make money until we stop subsidizing the fossil fuel industry!

[cxpage]

Whaaat2008, how's that EV working out for you? Maybe you should just throw it away since other people who live in cold climates can't use them. Just curious obviously knows what he's talking about so I should forget about converting a car to electric. It will never work because an electrical engineer said you can't power a car with solar or wind power. I guess the batteries can somehow tell where the electricity comes from, huh?

Justcurious has an ax to grind and propganda to spread!

[cxpage]

Ummm, let's see....How do you power a car with solar? Well, I am not an electriacl enginner but....Wait! I know...you plug it in! You get an EV or a plug in hybrid and you plug it in the electrical outlet!

You could do it with wind or nuke power too. The batteries do not care how the electricity is made. Most folks only drive their cars a few miles every day. Cloudy day? Pull juice off the grid!

Wow! why didn;t somebody think of this sooner?

[cxpage]

It WILL come out in the wash. If he's a crackpot then his ideas will not work and his company will not make money. That's how the free market works. But if he has even ONE good idea that may help someone else make a leap than that's a good thing. Why are poeple trying to shut him down?

BTW, I am also on the unoffical waiting list for a volt so don't try to pretend you are the only one who knows what the deal is. I also have friends with EV's and they work great.