Vaclav Smil Quotes

Energy is one topic on which different countries can work together collaboratively. If we can all produce energy from an element that's available in abundance on our planet, that would be a good thing, but we have to learn how to produce energy in large quantities, cheaply, efficiently and without detriment to the environment.

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.

In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country.

The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.

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.

I made a fairly bold pledge that I wanted Virginia to be the energy capital of the East Coast.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

The Pacific Northwest depends on inexpensive renewable energy from our dams.

One of the best things that came out of the Carter administration was the energy policy. The best things in it were renewable energy.

We should increase our development of alternative fuels, taking advantage of renewable resources, like using corn and sugar to produce ethanol or soybeans to produce biodiesel.

Energy Independence

Sunlight provides the greatest source of renewable energy on the planet. Sunlight provides more energy in a single day, than we use in a year the world over.

Because of climate changes, it's not just a question of producing energy. It's a question of producing energy in a way that we can live with in the long term. If you look at the available pieces, from conservation to nuclear, solar, whatever, and you put them all together, we can't do it.

Home-produced energy enhances our energy security and boosts the economy.

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

It was exciting putting hundreds of millions of dollars to work buying and building wind farms in Texas.

There is growing demand for renewable energy.

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

More than 40 percent of the electricity we generated in the Carolinas in 2015 was from carbon-free sources.

We have to move toward renewable energy in a big way here in America.

Renewable energy is very significant.

Energy cogeneration on Capitol Hill makes economic and environmental sense and should be pursued for those reasons.

Our vision is to have the Seoul citizens produce and efficiently consume energy.

I want to reignite the interest in hydro-electric investments.

I'm very concerned that a lot of our land is being taken up with solar farms.