Amory Lovins Quotes

United States, Physicist
November 13, 1947

Amory Bloch Lovins (born November 13, 1947) is an American physicist, environmental scientist, writer, and Chairman/Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. He has worked in the field of energy policy and related areas for four decades. He was named by Time magazine one of the World's 100 most influential people in 2009.

Also known as Environmentalist, Writer

The markets make a good servant but a bad master, and a worse religion

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

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...new nuclear plants are simply unfinanceable in the private capital market, and the technology will continue to die of an incurable attack of market forces-all the faster in competitive markets. This is true not just in the U.S., where the last order was in 1978 and all orders since 1973 were cancelled, but globally.

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When asked if we have enough time to prevent catastrophe, she'd always say that we have exactly enough time - starting now

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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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