5 MYTHS ABOUT GOING IT ALONE ON ENERGY

With oil prices still flirting with $100 a barrel, everyone is talking about the need for “energy independence.” Late last year, President Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007; Sen. John McCain has declared, “We need energy independence”; and Sen. Barack Obama has called for “serious leadership to get us started down the path of energy independence.”

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IF MORE CO2 IS BAD…THEN WHAT?

On the science of global climate change, I’m an agnostic. I’ve seen Al Gore’s movie, and I’ve read reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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BRYCE INTERVIEWS AMORY LOVINS

For three decades, Amory Lovins has been the darling of the Green/Left when it comes to energy policy. In this 3,600-word Q&A, Lovins claims that nuclear power is still bad, and amazingly, that William Stanley Jevons, the British economist who formulated the Jevons Paradox back in 1865, is wrong.

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GURU OR FAKIR? AMORY LOVINS IS AMERIC’S FAVORITE GREEN ENERGY ADVOCATE. DOES HIS RHETORIC MATCH REALITY?

In early August, it was announced that Amory Lovins had won the Volvo Environment Prize. Regarding Lovins’s selection, Volvo officials said, “He has developed a number of path-breaking technical, economic and policy concepts and succeeded in merging theory with a wide range of practical applications. His work is transforming the way we use energy worldwide.”

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A $20 BILLION SOLUTION TO AN INTRACTABLE PROBLEM

There are many reasons why the U.S. has lost the war in Iraq: hubris, terrible post-invasion planning, lack of knowledge of Iraqi/Muslim culture, and the failure of the occupation forces to control Iraq’s oil sector. But on the most basic tactical level, America has been defeated in Iraq because it cannot effectively counter the defining weapon of the Iraq War: the roadside bomb, which is also known by its now-familiar acronym, the IED, short for improvised explosive device.

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AN INTERVIEW WITH HUGH SHARMAN

Hugh Sharman is the founder and principal of Incoteco, an energy consulting firm based in Hals, Denmark. A native of the U.K., he received his degree in civil engineering from Imperial College, London, in 1962. Since then he has worked on energy infrastructure projects all over the world, including electric power plants in the Philippines, carbon dioxide injection projects in the North Sea, and the potential for electricity storage applications in Europe.

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JUICE: HOW ELECTRICITY EXPLAINS THE WORLD

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