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  1. #dukelive thanks for joining us for the Duke Environment & Society Lecture.
  2. #dukelive due to length of Lovins' excellent talk, we'll have to forward ?s to Lovins so he can possibly answer them later via email.
  3. #dukelive Q&A session with Amory Lovins begins. U can email ?s for him to live@duke.edu or via Twitter at #dukelive
  4. #dukelive Myth #5: Public policy is only or strongest option. (Lovins says no: Innovations from private sector are more dynamic)
  5. #dukelive Myth #4: Public policies=taxes, subsides, etc. (No. Better public options exist, like feebates & decoupling/shared savings)
  6. #dukelive Myth #3: Pricing carbon is essential 1st step. (No. It will be helpful & desirable, but likely won’t have big price effect)
  7. #dukelive Myth #2: Solutions must await global agreement. (Not true: China’s efficiency initiatives are self-interested)
  8. #dukelive Myth #1: Nothing’s happening. (Not true: US coal, oil and energy use fell in 2006)
  9. #dukelive Lovins concludes by bursting 5 myths about energy efficiency implementation.
  10. #dukelive lovins says we should reward utilities for cutting customers' bills, not for selling more energy
  11. #dukelive …and decoupling & shared savings for electricity & gas, to align utility and consumer interests
  12. #dukelive He cites 2 key energy efficiency policy options that need to be widely implemented: Fee-bates (fee + rebate) for efficient cars…
  13. @dukelive Lovins: "Nuclear power's market collapse is good for climate and security."
  14. #dukelive lovins cites myriad examples showing nuclear power is suffering from market collapse
  15. #dukelive: Lovins foresees all-renewable, all-distributed power system that relies more on efficiency & renewables, less on coal, nukes
  16. @dukelive 98-99% of all blackouts start in grid, so bypass it, Lovins says
  17. #dukelive All power sources are intermittent and/or variant, so concerns about wind/solar power are misplaced
  18. #dukelive ...Nuke has reliability issues: Of 253 ordered US plants, 48% weren’t built; 10% prematurely closed; 13 closed for year or more
  19. #dukelive New nuclear saves 2-20x less carbon per dollar & is 20-40x slower than efficiency and micropower investments, and …
  20. #dukelive Lovins says nuclear is now the costliest of the world’s low- or no-carbon energy resources