David J. C. MacKay Quotes

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

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.

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous compared to the idea of building a hundred new nuclear facilities primarily on the sites we already have.

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.

I was actually telling people that - by harnessing the atom - we could enter a new era of unlimited power that would do away with the need to dam our beautiful streams.

We've offered direct financial support for a range of renewable energy sources, whether it be large-scale solar, whether it be geothermal, whether it be wave power or wind power.

If a power station were to be built down the road, I'd prefer a nuclear plant over an oil burner, and definitely over a coal burner. We simply have to lessen our consumption of fossil fuels.

You know, one of the great things about most renewable technologies - not every technology, but many of them - is the jobs have to be local. When you're talking about a power plant and power generation using solar thermal technology, the jobs will be where the plant is.

China has an almost infinite need for energy, and frankly, the world would be better off if much of that need goes in the direction of wind power.

Nuclear fusion is the energy source of the future and always will be.

Unquestionably, major transformation of the way the U.K. generates its heat and power is essential.

What we are investing in, from a generation standpoint, are renewables and natural gas.

We're very committed... to make sure the energy that we are delivering to our customers is as clean as it can be.

The more nature and stuff, the better. The source of our power comes from nature, and the closer to nature you are, the more you can power up.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

Sunlight will renew your pride.

We prefer to talk about 100% renewable instead of zero carbon. When you say zero carbon, you are not positively defined.

We need a national renewable energy goal. Such a goal, sometimes called a renewable energy standard (RES), would spell out what percentage of our power America plans to get from renewable sources.

Under Prime Minister Narendra Modi, we are looking to make India self-reliant in terms of power requirement, along with providing carbon-free sources of power, thus improving India's position globally.

With transparency in renewables, the prices of renewables are coming down drastically.

Our children will work in energy tomorrow - they just won't work in fossil fuels, in the meantime, for social justice, economic justice and stability, we need ... negotiated, planned outcomes that people can touch at both the national and industry and enterprise level.

The price to generate a megawatt or a gigawatt of energy is coming down year after year. We're learning how to print it, make it more efficient.

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.

Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop.