More Bad Data From Amory Lovins

Over at the Alternative Energy Action Network, Arthur Smith is taking issue with some of the conclusions that Amory Lovins of the Rocky Mountain Institute made in the current issue of Scientific American:

The September 2005 Scientific American, a very good issue generally on "Crossroads for planet Earth" and the major near-term issues we're facing, includes an article by Amory Lovins that misleads far more than it informs. In the article's five sections Lovins pushes his two major themes of energy efficiency and hydrogen, with a nod to renewables, asserting that all we need do is take advantage of existing technologies to both save money and greatly reduce our use of oil and emissions of carbon dioxide. But the arguments and numbers he uses to make his case don't add up.

As some of our readers might recall, a few months ago my colleague David Bradish took a tough look at some of RMI's research, and found it wanting. And our friend Rod Adams has a number of issues with Lovins' conclusions as well.

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