A transcript along with video out takes from:
Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution
A Conversation with Amory Lovins
held at the City of San Diego Environmental Services Dept. "green
building", November 8, 1999
has been posted at:
http://www.sdearthtimes.com/ET_Postings/amory.html
Thanks to the efforts of volunteers: webmaster and videotaper: Chris
Klein, web programmer: Craig Nguyen Tran and me. <It took me seven
hours to transcribe what was essentially a one-hour presentation plus
questions! But it was worth it... check it out>
If you can't access the website for some reason, let me know and I
can email you a copy of the notes themselves. <but you won't see the
online video out takes...>
A couple of highlights:
"If you want a large suburban assault vehicle <laughter> that is also
radar stealthy and resistant to small arms fire - perhaps useful in a
modern urban environments - and you want it to be safe and
comfortable and superior in all respects, perform like a jaguar, emit
nothing but hot drinking water and do 120 mpg. We now know how to do
that."
"The first near-hypercar, about 2/3 of the way there, the Honda
Insight will reach the market this Christmas. The hypercar will
ultimately save as much oil as OPEC now sells so in the Persian Gulf
our military forces would have Mission Unnecessary. Also, it will be
the end as we know them of the car, oil, steel , aluminum, coal and
electricity industries."
citing a recent article in the Economist: "'The stone age did not end
because the world ran out of stones. And the oil age will not end
because the world will run out of oil.' I would put it less
elegantly. Oil will probably become uncompetitive even at low prices
before it becomes unavailable at high prices."
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