Five energy efficiency lectures for human

Rocky Mountain Institute – Stanford Energy Efficiency Lectures
Advanced Energy Efficiency : Concepts and Practice
Amory B. Lovins, Cofounder, Chairman and Chief Scientist, Rocky Mountain Institute
MAP/Ming Visiting Professor for Energy and Environment
Stanford University
March 2007

http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid231.php

Lecture 1: Buildings

Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes

Slide Presentation
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 1: Buildings (PDF 5.5MB)
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E07-02_Stanford_1Buildings.pdf

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Lecture 2: Industry

Running Time: 1 hour, 34 minutes

Slide Presentation
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 2: Industry (PDF 5.9MB)
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E07-03_Stanford_2Industry.pdf

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Lecture 3: Transportation

Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes

Slide Presentation
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 3: Transportation (PDF 4.1MB)
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E07-04_Stanford_3Transport.pdf

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Lecture 4: Implementation

Running Time: 1 hour, 35 minutes

Slide Presentation
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 4: Implementation (PDF 4.0MB)
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E07-05_Stanford_4Implement.pdf

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Lecture 5: Implications

Running Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Slide Presentation
Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 5: Implications (PDF 2.7MB)
http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Energy/E07-06_Stanford_5Implications.pdf

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From problems, principles, figures to case studies and solution. They’re for you, especially architect (need the training), indistries (need to know the win-win), government (need to have the vision) and economists (need to have more understanding). Don’t miss the Q&A section as well.

In the lectures, US Government’s arse was kicked numerous times, not surprisely. But they’re not the one, ours (Hong Kong Government’s) was also kicked once in lecture 4 (47:45-49:08; Slide Presentation: p.32). You can see how Amory felt disappointed about that. What a silly old mind of them, not to mention of their inefficient and inflexible operation.

Slides were very informative which may not be good for watching, but reading, reference and education.

Find it complex? No problem.

RMI’s Core Principles
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid60.php

mostly

RMI’s Approach to Energy
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid249.php

are the core of the lecture.

For Chinese reference, please read

《四倍數－資源使用減半，人民福祉加倍 (Factor Four)》

聯經網路書店
http://www.linkingbooks.com.tw/

Amory Lovins is the co-author of the book.

Want to know what I think? Simply type “rmi” in this blog’s search box. Or check out the article under

Sustainability
http://alanpoon.wordpress.com/tag/sustainability/

You’ll know why I’m so unsatisfied with what’ve done around.

For details, please check out

Rocky Mountain Institute : Abundance By Design
http://www.rmi.org/

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補充 (June 5, 2007)

文采風流 – 鬧劇一場
http://wen_feng1229.mysinablog.com/index.php?op=ViewArticle&articleId=615912

The article and those comments show one thing, Amory Lovins is right, people are seriously misled by Comfort theorist and Econometrician (Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 4: Implementation, p.54). People simply don’t know they don’t need air conditioning at all as long as all efficiency improvements have been done for their apartment or office. However, surely, the superficial activity is impractical, even has negative effect. Air-conditioning Free Day (無冷氣日) shouldn’t be June 1, but everyday. What’s the point of holding it for one day while most people don’t know how to make themselves comfortable without air-conditioner and everything around is poorly designed for that? Think in systems, please!

Let’s see how Amory Lovins saw this problem.

Why does efficient end-use get so little attention and respect?

• It’s invisible—zillions of little pieces, and they look unchanged

• Little attraction for TV cameras, politicians, rent-seekers

• Homebuyers often think it’s binary—you have it or you don’t

• Economists often presume that if it were worthwhile, it’d already have happened, so it must need higher prices to work

• Policymakers think they already did it in the ’70s…and are often conditioned by ill-recalled economic theory to disdain a big potential as supposedly impossible (see Economists)

• Designers often aren’t told or rewarded to diverge from comfortable past practice; also, most textbooks get it wrong

• Even many specialists can’t keep up with the pace of progress

• Executives often focus on bigger factor costs

• Installers come only when you call, not ahead of time

• Journalists and editors forgot what they’d learned

• Marketers haven’t yet seriously enrolled

(Advanced Energy Efficiency, Lecture 4: Implementation, p.50)

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What Exists is Possible

There’s an old joke about an economist who was walking down the street and saw a $20 bill on the pavement. He didn’t pick it up because he assumed it didn’t exist; if it did, he reasoned, someone would have already picked it up. Many good ideas are slow to catch on because people assume that if it worked somebody would have done it already. That’s why RMI devotes much of its efforts to documenting the best and most profitable energy-efficient technologies, industrial and architectural designs, and business practices: if they exist, they must be possible.

Quoted from Rocky Mountain Institute – Approach to Energy
http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid249.php

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Impossible is just a big word thrown around by small men who find it easier to live in a world they’ve been given than to explore the power they have to change it.
Impossible is not a fact. It’s an opinion.
Impossible is not a declaration. It’s a dare.
Impossible is potential.
Impossible is temporary.

Impossible is nothing.

Adidas commercial (2004)

Quoted from 石墨工房 5.1β – 「Impossible is Nothing」
http://fred.ipod.to/blog/?post;853