Renewables Quotes

My feeling is that nuclear is a distraction. It stops us doing what we all know we need to do invest urgently in renewables. ~ Marc Edwards

You could power America with renewables from a technical and economic standpoint. The biggest obstacles are social and political - what you need is the will to do it. ~ Mark Z. Jacobson

Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles. ~ Bill Gates

Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous. ~ Adnan

Switching to 'Renewables' generates jobs, skills, purpose, power, wealth, future, resilience, autonomy, freedom, unity: Sustainable Society ~ Dave Hampton

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more an increase than a decrease in dependence. ~ Herman E. Daly

The barriers that renewables and efficiency face come less from our living in a capitalist market economy and more from not taking market economics seriously. ~ Amory Lovins

I came here to help make America more competitive and prosperous by developing an energy policy that increases conservation, promotes cleaner technologies, encourages development of renewables and enhances domestic production of gas and oil. ~ Greg Walden

Interestingly, the oil companies know very well that in less than 30 years they will not only be charging very high prices, but that they will be uncompetitive with renewables. ~ Paul Hawken

There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of America's power from renewables, but you can't get to 100 percent because of their unreliability. ~ Nathan Myhrvold

Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such a year. In Washington, D.C., they haven't done a damn thing. ~ Brian Schweitzer

Renewables are, in fact, much more reliable than power based on extraction, since those energy models require continuous new inputs to avoid a crash, whereas once the initial investment has been made in renewable energy infrastructure, nature provides the raw materials for free. ~ Naomi Klein

Losing more of our existing nuclear fleet will make it that much tougher to meet our carbon reduction goals. We need to keep ramping up renewables, but they can't meet our need for reliable power 24/7. Nuclear is a baseload source and it's carbon-free - two things we need. ~ Eileen Claussen

All renewables, much as I love them, are diffuse. They all have a small power per unit area, and we have to live with that fact. ~ David J. C. MacKay

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. ~ T. Boone Pickens

Historically, the United States has had a wonderful energy policy. We're blessed with a diversity of resources. We have oil. We have gas. We have coal. We have nuclear. And renewables. And as a result, one of our biggest competitive advantages has been affordable energy. You need a strong economy and you need affordable energy to fuel that economy. ~ John S. Watson

Australia is a remarkable country with incredible technical and physical resources and a capacity to be a world leader in renewables. ~ Cate Blanchett

I think what we all have to do is make this big leap towards renewables. And it has to be a solution where you're actually building the answer; and it has to be built faster than the natural gas industry can build their answer. ~ Josh Fox

We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment. ~ Steven Magee

One of the biggest issues with renewables right now is the fact that if the wind isn't blowing, if the sun isn't shining, we don't have energy. Many people are working on storage technology so when the wind isn't blowing, we can use the energy stored in our giant batteries, essentially. But what happens if we don't have enough stored energy? ~ Katharine Hayhoe

The second thing is, if you want to do something about global warming, you have to think much more long-term. There is something wrong with saying we should start using renewables now, while they are still incredibly expensive. ~ Bjorn Lomborg

Energy is significantly underpriced in many parts of the world, leading to wasteful consumption, price volatility and fuel smuggling. It's also undermining the competitiveness of renewables. ~ Fatih Birol

So if Obama's energy policy is "all of the above" - which effectively means full steam ahead with fossil fuel extraction, complemented with renewables around the margins - Blockadia is responding with a tough philosophy that might be described as "None of the below." It is based on the simple principle that it's time to stop digging up poisons from the deep and shift, with all speed, to powering our lives from the abundant energies on our planet's surface. ~ Naomi Klein

The 20th century was the time when the world turned to use of fossil fuels and the 21st century will be the century of the renewables. ~ Lester R. Brown

If it's in people's interest to invest in renewables and invest in clean technologies, I'm convinced it will happen. ~ Sally Jewell

First, by 2020, North America will be energy independent by taking full advantage of our oil and coal and gas and nuclear and renewables. ~ Mitt Romney