America's Best Leaders: Amory Lovins, Energy Scientist

solar energy

Is there any way we could save solar energy on cloudy days.

heat

How is heat been trapped and how does it affect the environment?

Amory Lovins

You must have heard about this guy when you were working in

the research lab. I used to read about him in the Mother Earth News, and really admired his work and committment.

Over Unity

Funny that around 900 people around the globe has working Over Unity devices that is proven to be OU, and we have for years tryed to get it into the heads of science but they fail to understand it, thats realy strange how can a scientist fail to understand something so natural as OU?

The world is not as it seems to be! For years the government and oil industry has made sure that no school will say that OU is possible, that to protect the huge world economics with is based on the polluting oil, with destroys the planet, but no one cares about that as long its money into the picture.

When a scientist say its not possible he says so due to the fakt that he is told so in school and fail to think logical and or fail to activate a open mind and say maybe it is possible, but no, they just say what they are told.

The key to Over Unity is RESONANCE with basically means that the device is in harmony with the nature, no 3Phase el-motor conected to the 3phase grid is in harmony with itself or anything else for that matter, but when u put on resonance controll to the motor it turns into a diffrent storry a diffrent storry with the science community do not want to realice due to the fakt that they are ignorant and to provd about theyr status that they wont emit anyting that will violate theyr degree of status.

A motor that is under resonance controll emits no heat so there is no heat loss and heat loss is an effect of a lost energy with has been believed to be impossible to harvest or use, that is totally wrong.

When a motor has resonance controll the following things happen:

1. The energy that is responsible for creating the heat or heat loss as it is named by public terms, do not brake the rotor in the motor as it would do normally.

2. Becos the brake effect is free'ed from the motors electro magnetic field, the motor now operates with a greater torq (NM).

3. The brake effect with is not there anymore is normally a load and that load with is normaly there equals grid needs, but becos its not there anymore you have free'ed some grid needs with means that the power consume factor has gone down equal to the now gone load (opositte megnetic field).

4. Ok so now u have increased torq, and reduced grid needs, but it does not end there, we have not yet used the "brake"/heat loss energy yet, we too now have only removed it and created less power needs and increased the torq, in reality only in one operation so we want to use that energy and that energy is then used as a energy to even more reduce grid needs and thats becos we replace that energy with some part of grid input.

The final result is a motor that have increased its torq with about 43% and at same time has reduced its grid needs with as much as 90% or more.

I have a 3phase 5.5KW motor with uses 720W when its on normal grid and without resonance controll, the same engine now on resonance controll use only 34.2W at Power Factor 100%.

OU=Fuel for Electric cars

(NF)Normal Fuel=HUGE Money

NF=BS!

Amory Lovins

About 40 years ago when Amory was a student at Amherst Regional High School, I hired him for to summer to work on my research project at the University of Massachusetts. His task was to help build an amolifier for use in light scattering studies. He did an excellent job, better than many of my former graduate students, and it was obvious that he was talented. It is gratifying to see that a person with his ability is playing an important role in helping us deal with the world's difficult energy problem. We need more such people who can apply their skills to improving the planet.

Very poor choice with Amory Lovins

I am disappointed by not surprised by your choice of Amory Lovins in your list of America's Best Leaders. This is particularly troubling in light of our nation's (and our world's) current challenges regarding energy and sustainability. It is perhaps a testament to the difficulty of this issue that the minds of US News saw fit to drag out Lovins and his problematic beliefs as leader in energy use. Greater critical thinking on the part of your editors would have been appreciated, however.

Lovins is a wonderful orator, great with the amusing catch-phrase, personally charming, and mostly wrong. His main contribution to the auto industry has been to suggest the problematic hydrogen economy and economically non-feasible efforts to lighten the weight of automobiles. It is interesting that in the same issue of US News, you highlight the problems with domestic automakers, all of whom made some effort to act on Lovins' beliefs. Of particular note is GM's huge and failed effort to make hydrogen work. (I do not think it ever will.) His misleading commentaries on the supposed high cost of nuclear power have helped to derail an industry that in hindsight, we seem to need more than ever. Far from being a leader, Lovins has (unintentionally, I am sure) proved to be an extremely damaging and problematic influence on the many industries he has supposedly been trying to help.

A much better choice would have been someone like Felix Kramer of calcars.org, who has been a tireless cheerleader for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), a technology that Lovins belatedly supported only within the last year or so. Should PHEVs make it to the broad market, as I suspect they will, then Kramer will have accomplished more than Lovins ever has in his entire 30+ year career as an energy consultant and futurist.

Energy and energy efficiency is a tough, complicated, and confusing business. One needs to write plans with a pencil. If Lovins had the capacity to admit error or concern about past pronouncements, we'd be in a much better place at this point. While Lovins seems to lack the capacity to admit mistakes, hopefully US News can work work at a higher level. Because even more that great thought leaders, we truly need a thoughtful press.

Lovins in Iraq

A good example of his transideological bent is described in Tom Friedman's "Hot, Flat and Crowded": he advised the US Army on how to reduce its exposure to IED attacks on fuel convoys by "eating its tail". Works like this: generate solar electricity to air-condition tents in the desert heat, rather than trucking loads of diesel fuel for generators, and fewer trucks en route saves energy, equipment and lives, also a lot of our MONEY: the "effective cost" of a gallon of fuel for those tents, even in Iraq, was I think $175 a gallon if you include everything!

electric cars and smart garages

I trully admire this man and his group.when i first read a about him in popular mechanics i thought WOW. missed confrence in Denver unfortuately, wanted to go so bad but my car was bad? i also alerted some groups to check him out with the president- elect Obama. trying very hard to spread the word about him and his think and do group.brilliant people all.

WtOE and practical implementation

Ever since TED.com (finally) put Amory Lovins 2005 talk onto their site for the public just this year, I have wondered why I found so little response/reaction in the public domain.

I'm very happy to see that changing.

However, this has to move from the 'transidealogic' evangelicism of a brilliant person, to American society as a whole. And this is the tricky part. And also where the foundations of a truer democracy live.

It must be apparent to all with reason that recent political and economic conditions put RMI's WtOE front and center. It seems to be an ideal fit with recent congressional debate to 'save' the automobile industry. Its' effectively implemented concepts would revolutionize the aerospace and trucking/haulage industries. It is also more than likely to seep into a plethora of industrial/commercial business models not yet imagined.

The Rocky Mountain Institute, Washington, and Main street need to get together on this.

bananas in the rockies

Lovins is showing off the bananas he grows at his place in the Rocky Mountains. His house / greenhouse / workplace is warm enough, year round, to grow bananas, without the use of fossil fuels. As I understand it the climate control is mostly passive-solar with good insulation, but there is a wood stove for use on the very coldest winter days. Electricity is provided entirely by the 1980s-vintage solar PV array and battery storage.