At the time he was widely ridiculed, but events have vindicated him.For some years now, Mr Lovins has been making another sweeping forecast for the future of energy, and again he is sounding fanciful: "This breakthrough will be like the leap from the steam engine to the diesel locomotive, from the typewriter to the laptop computer...it's a really disruptive technology".
Watching the snowfall forecasts from the potent blizzard sweeping into the Northeast (we're at the western edge of the robin's egg 12-24 inches zone), I can't help but think back to March, 2010, when we lost power for five days after the Hudson Valley and other regions were paralyzed by several feet of snow.
"Some of the country's top movements start in Brooklyn, N.Y.," the copy declared, noting that Ms. Tenentes is there to forecast "trends soon to be sweeping the nation".
"Worry about the senior managers who can't forecast a downturn resulting in sweeping redundancies across the business".
But Mr. Bush said today that the importance of a sweeping tax cut was highlighted by signs and forecasts of an economic slowdown.
After sweeping up the mess, the main concern was that, with the forecast, more could follow.
The late December weather matched the economic climate; an icy, cold front was sweeping across the economy and creating a frozen jobs market — and the forecast was bleak with no sign of recovery in sight.
After sweeping across the Great Lakes, the storm dumped 5ft (1.5m) of snow in the Buffalo area, with more forecast.
Met Office forecasts say hurricane force winds of 60 to 80mph could hit southern parts of the UK sweeping north and east overnight.
Although the hurricane itself is forecast to arrive on Sunday morning, Florida will be seeing extremely strong winds from Saturday morning, sweeping up through the state.
The heaviest snowfall was forecast to hit the High Plains of eastern Colorado in the evening and overnight hours before sweeping into Nebraska and Kansas, according to the National Weather Service.
