Amory Lovins Quotes

Don't build a glass house if you're worried about saving money on heating.

It’s cheaper to save energy than to buy it.

When I was a kid, we had airconditioning in the house... but we never used it.

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.

In Tahoe, you want to be able check on the temperature of the house or turn it on before you get there. Because it's really cold in the winter.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

Industry looks at research and development for energy efficiency, lowering material costs, so on and so forth.

Consumers don't need to be forced to pay billions for so-called smart technology to know how to reduce their utility bills. We know to turn down the heat or air conditioning and shut off the lights.

There's a way of getting heat that works for you, and there's a way of getting heat that works against you.

Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.

One of the technology lessons was to work inside the cost envelope of the developing world to lower costs overall. What's even more important and useful is dramatically lowering power consumption. Everyone wants batteries that can last 10 times longer.

Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load.

When I heated my home with oil, I used an average of 800 gallons a year. I have found that I can keep comfortably warm for an entire winter with slightly over half that quantity of beer.

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

The cheapest, cleanest, nonemitting power plant in the world is the one you don’t build.

Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is.

Why would we frack our countrysides and our watersheds when we know that energy efficiency would save more energy that natural gas can provide.

The cheapest and cleanest energy is the energy you don't use.

People don't take enough advantage of the refrigerator door.

Higher energy prices are requiring industry and commerce to examine the costs and efficiency of energy use.

The road to energy efficiency is, in theory, a sustainability sweepstake. More efficiency means that less fuel is required to generate a given amount of energy, which in turn means lower costs for the provider and cheaper prices for the customers.

Using cheap and efficient energy makes every other American industry more productive, and thus makes American employers far more competitive in global markets. Productivity creates higher paying jobs in America; it doesn't destroy them.

I keep a very cold apartment - I tend to crank my AC just about as low as it can go. I sleep with a big, warm comforter, even during the summer, and just burrow underneath it.

Anything we can do to educate the younger generation about conservation of energy is great.