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What is the energy problem
| Author | Amory Lovins, L.Hunter Lovins |
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| Classification | 6.01.0.20/15 (IMPORTANCE WORLDWIDE) |
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ABSTRACT The worldwide collapse of nuclear power from an incurable attack of market forces makes it timely to reexamine the premises of France's ambitious effort to substitute uranium for oil. New ways of looking at the energy problem, and international experience of the technical readiness and economic attractiveness of alternative ways of providing energy services, have now cast those premises in serious doubt. The lack of a market for marginal electricity makes any new central power station inherently uneconomic: even the running cost of a new reactor cannot compete with efficiency improvements ample to do the same tasks. Nuclear investments retard oil displacement by diverting resources from more effective oil-saving measures, and hazard both the solvency of EdF and the vitality of the French economy. In contrast, available and cost-effective technologies for dramatically improving French energy productivity and for appropriate renewable energy supply can make France independent of both fossil and nuclear fuels. Recent developments abroad suggest that this could be done more quickly, more cheaply, and at much lower political cost than achieving similar goals via nuclear power. Moreover, increased reliance on central electrification makes the energy system easy to disrupt. New analyses show that a more efficient, dispersed, diverse, renewable energy system would offer France far greater national security against interruptions of energy supply than could any central-electric alternative to oil dependence.
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