{"id":1405,"date":"2023-10-18T02:31:03","date_gmt":"2023-10-18T02:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ccnr.thedev.ca\/?page_id=1405"},"modified":"2025-02-19T15:15:50","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T15:15:50","slug":"the-hard-and-soft-energy-paths-according-to-amory-lovins","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/the-hard-and-soft-energy-paths-according-to-amory-lovins\/","title":{"rendered":"The Hard and Soft Energy Paths \u2014 according to Amory Lovins \u2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">The Hard and Soft Energy Paths<br \/>\n&#8212; according to Amory Lovins &#8212;<\/h1>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<h4>In his 1976 Foreign Affairs article entitled &#8220;Soft Energy Paths&#8221;, and in his subsequent book of the same title, Amory Lovins (founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute) contrasted the &#8220;Hard Energy Path&#8221;, as forecast at that time by most electrical utilities, and the &#8220;Soft Energy Path&#8221;, as advocated by Lovins and other utility critics. Amory&#8217;s ideas, which have stood the test of time very well, were initially greeted with incredulity by industrial experts in the energy field, who scorned his &#8220;Soft Energy Path&#8221; scenario as hopelessly unrealistic. Yet events have proven that Amory&#8217;s forecasts were much closer to reality than those of his detractors.<\/h4>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/ccnr.org\/gifs\/amory_ana.gif\" align=\"center\" \/><\/p>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<blockquote><p>These charts, taken from Amory&#8217;s Foreign Affairs article, were cited by him in his 1989 Keynote Address entitled &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/the-negawatt-revolution-solving-the-co2-problem\/\">The Negawatt Revolution<\/a>&#8220;, delivered at the 1989 Green Energy Conference in Montreal (organized by CCNR).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<hr noshade=\"noshade\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">[\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/ccnr.org\/index_pictures.html#dir\">Picture Gallery<\/a>\u00a0]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hard and Soft Energy Paths &#8212; according to Amory Lovins &#8212; In his 1976 Foreign Affairs article entitled &#8220;Soft Energy Paths&#8221;, and in his subsequent book of the same title, Amory Lovins (founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute) contrasted the &#8220;Hard Energy Path&#8221;, as forecast at that time by most electrical utilities, and the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/the-hard-and-soft-energy-paths-according-to-amory-lovins\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Hard and Soft Energy Paths \u2014 according to Amory Lovins \u2014<\/span> Lire la suite\u00a0\u00bb<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"disabled","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"disabled","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"default","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1405","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1405"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3703,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1405\/revisions\/3703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.ccnr.org\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}