The Lifeboat AcademyFeb 16

Facts are often quieter, unlike fantasy.

They don’t offer spectacle or certainty. They describe constraints, trade-offs, and conditions as they are.

When decisions lean on illusion, correction becomes harsher over time. When they lean on evidence, learning can happen earlier and with less damage.

Shared reality may be unglamorous — but it is what makes coordination possible.

Full reflection:
https://emotusoperandi.medium.com/blessing-or-curse-20eb1cdc9a36

#BlessingOrCurse #SharedReality #CollectiveDiscernment #AmoryLovins

The Lifeboat AcademyOct 9
#amorylovins #FactBased #metacrisis #resilience #societalcollapse
The Lifeboat AcademyAug 14, 2025
#amorylovins #metacrisis #climatecrisis #artofliving #softenergy
gittacaNov 12, 2023

"Optimism can easily mask cowardice. #AppliedHope requires fearlessness."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9MeRKY8UqI

#RockyMountainsInstitute #AmoryLovins #GameB #RenewableEnergy #ReinventingFire #GreenIT

Radical Energy Efficiency, Integrative Design and Applied Hope, a talk by Amory Lovins

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bs2Oct 8, 2022
> it is entirely possible to sustain a reliable electricity system based on renewable energy sources plus a combination of other means, including improved methods of energy management and storage. A clearer understanding of how to dependably manage electricity supply is vital because climate threats require a rapid shift to renewable sources like #solar and #WindP ower.
https://e360.yale.edu/features/three-myths-about-renewable-energy-and-the-grid-debunked
#AmoryLovins #MVRamana #RenewableEnergy #Electricity #PowerGrid #MythLies
Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid, Debunked

Renewable energy skeptics argue that because of their variability, wind and solar cannot be the foundation of a dependable electricity grid. But the expansion of renewables and new methods of energy management and storage can lead to a grid that is reliable and clean.

Yale e360
StrypeySep 14, 2020

"In fact, building new reactors, or operating most existing ones, makes climate change worse compared with spending the same money on more-climate-effective ways to deliver the same energy services. Those who state as fact that rejecting (more precisely, declining to bail out) nuclear energy would make carbon reduction much harder are in good company, but are mistaken."

#AmoryLovins

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amorylovins/2019/11/18/does-nuclear-power-slow-or-speed-climate-change/amp/

#NuclearPower #ClimateChange

Does Nuclear Power Slow Or Speed Climate Change?

To protect the climate, we must save the most carbon at the least cost and in the least time, counting all three variables—carbon and cost and time.

Pierre HuyghebaertJul 11, 2020
https://clubofrome.org/impact-hubs/reframing-economics/prospects-for-a-world-of-declining-gdp
"Notre espèce humaine vit sur cette terre depuis environ 15000 générations. Jusqu'en 1750, il n'y a eu pratiquement aucune croissance du #PIB par personne. Pendant 300 000 ans, la population moyenne n'a connu aucune amélioration globale de son bien-être au cours de sa vie. Ce n'est qu'au cours des 15 dernières générations, soit à peine 0,1 % de l'existence de l'humanité sur terre, qu'il a été accepté et attendu que la vie pour tous s'améliore continuellement et rapidement.
#AmoryLovins a constaté : "Tout ce qui est arrivé est possible".
Il est donc certainement possible, socialement et psychologiquement, pour les humains de vivre sans croissance. Mais il est certainement impossible politiquement et économiquement pour les humains de choisir cette option de manière proactive maintenant.
Les politiciens ont besoin de la promesse de plus pour plus tard pour maintenir l'engagement pour des accords qui donnent moins maintenant. Et les financiers ont besoin de la promesse de plus pour plus tard pour maintenir la tolérance à l'égard des politiques qui produisent d'énormes inégalités pour la plupart des gens maintenant."
[...]
La suite sur https://miniwa.moe/notice/9wynxiiB5hzdGULsye
Traduction par Jean-Pierre Dieterlen il semble.
Show threadStrypeyJun 3, 2020
@kravietz If you really want to understand #RenewablesEnergy strategies, and the society-wide changes required to transition to a long-term sustainable energy system, I suggest digging into #AmoryLovins' work entitled #ReinventingFire
https://rmi.org/insight/reinventing-fire/
Reinventing Fire - Rocky Mountain Institute

Built on 30 years of research and work in the field, Reinventing Fire maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050 needing no oil, no coal, and no nuclear energy.

Rocky Mountain Institute
Show threadStrypeyJul 25, 2019

@yang why not invest in creating jobs in #RenewableEnergy technology like the #NZ government are? See #AmoryLovins work on #ReinventingFire:
https://rmi.org/insight/reinventing-fire/

There are newer, more efficient ways being trialled to harvest solar and wind energy. Geothermal can provide baseload energy as reliably as mined fuels (including nuclear), with no pollution created. Biomass, tidal/ wave, and others have #ProofOfConcept prototypes and need support to scale up. This is our energy future.

Reinventing Fire - Rocky Mountain Institute

Built on 30 years of research and work in the field, Reinventing Fire maps pathways for running a 158%-bigger U.S. economy in 2050 needing no oil, no coal, and no nuclear energy.

Rocky Mountain Institute