Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
by Amory Lovins
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Reinventing Fire reads like a strategic white paper extended into book form: methodical, example-rich, and oriented toward sector-level solutions for replacing oil, coal, and nuclear with cleaner alternatives. Its useful part is a clear, operationally-minded set of scenarios and business cases that show how demand-side efficiency plus supply shifts could change energy systems. The main limitation is tone and focus—strongly optimistic and prescriptive—so readers wanting gritty political limitations, personal stories, or short step-by-step actions may find it long on proposals and light on implementation friction.
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Imagine fuel without fear. No climate change. No oil spills, no dead coalminers, no dirty air, no devastated lands, no lost wildlife. No energy poverty. No oilfed wars, tyrannies, or terrorists. No leaking nuclear wastes or spreading nuclear weapons. Nothing to run out. Nothing to cut off. Nothing to worry about. Just energy abundance, benign and ...
Difficulty:hard
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Recommended by 4 sources and appears in Environment, Most Recommended Books, and Business.
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Ev Williams
Co-founder of Twitter and Medium
“I’ve read a lot about climate change. Mostly it’s depressing — which isn’t a good reason to not understand it. But this book from Amory Lovins and his Rocky Mountain Institute is an antidote for doom and gloom. It offers a thoroughly researched set of options for engineering our way out of the crisis.”
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