Reinventing Fire by Amory Lovins

Author:Amory Lovins
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Published: 2011-08-31T00:00:00+00:00

No-regrets

Opportunistic

Innovative

Customers

Design out, reduce, reuse, remanufacture, recycle.

Ask suppliers for lifecycle analyses.

Test service business models rather than buying products.

Lean-engineer your use of products to make sure you’re buying only what you really need.

Inform purchasing decisions by determining fossil-fuel impact.

Switch from product purchases to service leases.

Plant owners and managers

Measure energy use of plant/process.

Optimize current plant/process performance and implement “lean thinking” throughout.

Research energy-efficient technologies/practices.

Test lifecycle analyses.

Train employees in energy management and make it part of everyone’s normal responsibility.

Put in place a continuously learning energy management structure.

Reflect energy savings in reward systems.

Develop efficiency and renewables intellectual capital.

Cut hurdle rates for efficiency projects (to marginal cost of capital or less) and allow them to compete across the company, not just in each department, so the full profitable opportunity is actively financed.

Fund R&D to commercialize efficiency and renewable breakthroughs (in both processes and technology).

Execute long-term energy strategy in existing and new facilities.

Systematically apply integrative and biomimetic design companywide.

Switch to service business models rather than product sales/purchases.

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