David J. C. MacKay Quotes

I really have become convinced that nuclear fusion is our energy future. It's so powerful. I mean, it is the power of the stars. If we could bring that down to the laboratory and to the power plant on Earth, that would be an incredible thing.

Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species.

We should remember that there are nations which meet more than 30 to 60% of their power requirements through the nuclear power system.

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.

Nuclear energy is a baseload - meaning it's power that you can run any time you want, day or night - and carbon-free.

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.

Don't get me wrong: I love nuclear energy! It's just that I prefer fusion to fission. And it just so happens that there's an enormous fusion reactor safely banked a few million miles from us. It delivers more than we could ever use in just about 8 minutes. And it's wireless!

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.

Whether fuel cell system development in central Oregon, wind power generation along the Columbia Gorge, or geothermal energy in southern Oregon, investing in new energy sources makes America more energy independent while creating good paying, environmentally friendly jobs.

There is a reason it is called fossil fuel-it is an outdated method of getting power.

As expanding economies continue to grow, the one source of energy that we can develop rapidly, cheaply and with next-to-no emissions is nuclear energy.

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.

Nuclear power is an important part of our domestic fuel mix.

It's very hard for me to know what to say about fusion right now, inasmuch as it is not yet scientifically feasible. I just can't understand how so many people are able to predict so much about something that still isn't scientifically possible.

My holy grail is fusion energy. Nuclear fusion has little to no radioactive waste. It's clean. It's very abundant. The fuels are everywhere. There are problems with fusion.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away

For years, I have been a strong supporter of clean, safe nuclear energy as an important part of our energy mix.

It's millions of times more efficient to collect hydroelectric power through a dam than raindrop by raindrop.

We need nuclear energy now, and we will need it in the future.

We should be building more nuclear today.

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 prospect of cheap fusion energy is the worst thing that could happen to the planet.

We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun, you don't have to do anything, it just works. It shows up every day.

To shut off coal, or to say you can't have further coal development, I think is the wrong way to go.