Abstract
In this article published in Foreign Affairs, Amory Lovins describes a U.S. transition from fossil fuels–a blueprint detailed in Reinventing Fire— that requires pursuing three agendas. First, radical automotive efficiency can make electrification affordable and save fuel in heavy vehicles; and all vehicles can be used more productively. Second, new designs can make buildings and factories several times more efficient than they are now. Third, modernizing the electric system to make it diverse, distributed, and renewable can also make it clean, reliable and secure. Getting the U.S. off fossil fuels would transform its foreign policy, and turbocharge global development. He argues that we don’t have to wait for congress to seize these opportunities.
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