Reinventing Fire is Amory Lovins' new TED talk on a smart 50
year energy plan. He shows how the US (and Canada) can choose to
save $5 trillion, improve national security, increase jobs, reduce
carbon emissions, and stop subsidizing its enemies by getting off
oil and coal. How? Conserve, and switch to renewables, on a very
large scale. It's inspiring, credible, persuasive, smart and
packed with data. How many people know, for example, that there is
now more renewable electricity generation in the world than
nuclear? That reliable electricity can be provided by a diverse,
distributed, mostly renewable system? That Portugal's
electrical generation is already 45% renewable? That the retrofit
of the Empire State Building paid for itself in 3 years by saving
energy? That carbon fibre electric cars will be for sale next year?
That big energy savings are often cheaper than small ones? That
peak oil demand may come this decade, i.e. that demand for oil
could start to fall before
