Amory Lovins and Soft Energy

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Jccarlton
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Amory Lovins and Soft Energy

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Soft in the head was more like it. http://www.greentechhistory.com/2010/02 ... rgy-paths/
You can't create a higher standard of living by conservation. The second law of thermodynamics gets you every time.
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A more "hard" green.

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Jccarlton wrote:Soft in the head was more like it. http://www.greentechhistory.com/2010/02 ... rgy-paths/
You can't create a higher standard of living by conservation. The second law of thermodynamics gets you every time.
If soft energy was cheaper as Lovins maintains then it would not need to be subsidized.
Engineering is the art of making what you want from what you can get at a profit.
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