The Case Against Nuclear Power, Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI)

RMI’s Lovins highlights four problems with nuclear that keep it from competing against cheaper, swifter rivals such as cogeneration, wind and energy efficiency that also do no have nuclear’s security and proliferation problems:

Tools for Sustainable Design

Each year, the U.S. building sector creates more than 50 percent of the country’s CO2 emissions. To address this issue effectively, designers need to assess the sustainability of their ideas from the earliest planning phases, when most of a building’s environmental impact is decided.

http://bet.rmi.org/rmi-news/tools-for-sustainable-design.html

pid174.php

C02-12, Cool Citizens: Everyday Solutions to Climate Change: Household Solutions Brief http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Climate/C02-12a_CoolCitizens.pdf

Climate: Citizens and Community http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid173.php

& http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid177.php

C07-08, Profitable Solutions For Oil, Climate, and Proliferation (PDF-196k) "What Can We Do To Fix The Climate Problem?"

http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Climate/C07-08_ProfitableSolutions.pdf

C05-05, More Profit With Less Carbon (PDF-515k)
C05-05a, More to Explore: Extended bibliography (PDF-24k

http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid173.php

Energy Efficiency http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid113.php

Household Energy Efficiency http://nc.rmi.org/NETCOMMUNITY/Page.aspx?pid=217&srcid=217

Energy Security http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid114.php

& http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid115.php

Transportation Energy Solutions http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid175.php

Water Efficiency http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid172.php

Agriculture and Sustainable Development http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid178.php

Business Philosophy http://www.rmi.org/sitepages/pid174.php

Comparison of Life-Cycle Analyses of Compact Fluorescent and

Incandescent Lamps Based on Rated Life of Compact Fluorescent Lamp

This paper addresses the debate over compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) and incandescents through life-cycle analyses (LCA) conducted in the SimaPro1 life-cycle analysis program. It compares the environmental impacts of providing a given amount of light (approximately 1,600 lumens) from incandescents and CFLs for 10,000 hours. Special attention has been paid to recently raised concerns regarding CFLs—specifically that their complex manufacturing process uses so much energy that it outweighs the benefits of using CFLs, that turning CFLs on and off frequently eliminates their energy-efficiency benefits, and that they contain a large amount of mercury. The

research shows that the efficiency benefits compensate for the added complexity in manufacturing, that while rapid on-off cycling of the lamp does reduce the environmental (and payback) benefits of CFLs they remain a net “win,” and that the mercury emitted over a CFL’s life—by power plants to power the CFL and by leakage on disposal—is still less than the mercury that can be attributed to powering the incandescent

http://www.rmi.org/images/PDFs/Climate/C08-02_CFL_LCA.pdf