Amory Lovins’ Atomic Blunder
Peddling the Soft Energy Illusion
Do the math: simply repeating 2011’s renewables installations for three
additional years, through 2014, would thus displace Germany’s entire pre-Fukushima nuclear output.
Or so claims Amory Lovins in a new piece about renewable energy in Germany.
Anyone with a passing knowledge of the level of nuclear power in
Germany will recognize this claim is utter nonsense within about two
seconds. However, since Lovins appears incapable, or unwilling, to do
the basic arithmetic, let’s do it here. A couple minutes on Google can
find a summary of German solar and wind installations in 2011:http://thebreakthrough.org/index.php/programs/energy-and-climate/amory-lovins-atomic-blunder/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+thebreakthrough+%28The+Breakthrough+Institute+Full+Site+RSS%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
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