Name: 【TED】Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy (Amory Lovins: A 40-year plan for energy)
Uploaded: 2016-01-10T01:43:57.000Z
Duration: 27 min 5 s
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Translator: Jenny Zurawell Reviewer: Morton Bast

Oh, I missed one: or E) none of the above?

That's the one we're not normally offered.

that makes us safe, secure, healthy and durable.

to our security, economy, health and environment

that are starting to erode, if not outweigh their benefits.

And switching from the old fire to the new fire

means changing two big stories about oil and electricity,

each of which puts two-fifths of the fossil carbon in the air.

Less than one percent of our electricity is made from oil --

Three-fourths of our oil fuel is transportation.

Three-fourths of our electricity powers buildings.

So very efficient vehicles, buildings and factories

and also natural gas that can displace both of them.

But today's energy system is not just inefficient,

By 2050 though, it could become efficient,

We can eliminate our addiction to oil and coal by 2050

five trillion dollars less in net present value,

and all other hidden or external costs are worth zero --

could support 158 percent bigger U.S. economy

Moreover, this transition needs no new inventions

and no new federal taxes, mandate subsidies or laws

I'm going to tell you how to get the United States

completely off oil and coal, five trillion dollars cheaper

In other words, we're going to use our most effective institutions --

private enterprise co-evolving with civil society

to go around our least effective institutions.

about profits and jobs and competitive advantage

or national security, or environmental stewardship

and climate protection and public health,

reinventing fire makes sense and makes money.

that enlarging the boundaries of a tough problem

makes it soluble by encompassing more options and more synergies.

we integrated all four sectors that use energy --

transportation, buildings, industry and electricity --

and we integrated four kinds of innovation,

very much more than the sum of the parts,

especially in creating deeply disruptive business opportunities.

Oil costs our economy two billion dollars a day,