Gavin Andresen Quotes

The Department of Defense, the largest single energy consumer in America, is bullish on solar.

Whether you're replacing one appliance that's seen better days, or many because you're moving or renovating, you probably know to look for the Energy Star label. That's good advice.

Obviously Tesla is about helping solve the consumption of energy in a sustainable manner, but you need the production of energy in a sustainable manner.

The Texas Energy Office's Loan Star Program has reduced building energy consumption and taxpayers' energy costs through the efficient operation of public buildings, saving taxpayers more than $172 million through energy efficiency projects.

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to continue to grow our energy usage.

I am a true believer that we have to change the way we generate and consume energy in the United States.

I've seen firsthand the dramatic savings that solar energy can generate.

Energy efficiency not only saves businesses and consumers money, but it also reduces pollution by cutting energy use.

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

When the sun is sending more energy to earth in one hour than the entire world consumes in a year, any political play to undermine our ability to harness this energy effectively and efficiently is clearly not economical but it's also unethical.

I say it is impossible that so sensible a people [citizens of Paris], under such circumstances, should have lived so long by the smoky, unwholesome, and enormously expensive light of candles, if they had really known that they might have had as much pure light of the sun for nothing.

Your electric bills will go down.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

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.

We have seen the Democrat solution to an energy crisis; it's called California.

D energy - Domestic jobs; Domestic energy; Deficit reduction.

Reliable and affordable energy is essential for meeting basic human needs and fueling economic growth, but many of the most difficult and dangerous environmental problems at every level of economic development arise from the harvesting, transport, processing, and conversion of energy

By electrifying our lives, we reduce our energy costs by 39 percent, which is a huge savings in itself.

There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet] show those savings, in fact, are enough to pay the costs of creating 100% clean renewable energy.

Far from being a drag on growth, making our energy sources more sustainable, our energy consumption more efficient, and our economy more resilient to energy price shocks - those things are a vital part of the growth and wealth that we need

The interesting thing is the field is so big - it's enormous. One thing a modern civilization needs is energy.

Energy is an eternal delight.

It's energy intensification, where we essentially have, through our light bulbs and cars, the manpower of [hundreds of] people working on our behalf, helping our food being created, helping our materials like steel and plastic and wood and paper be created. Our lifestyles are incredibly energy intense.

The more we deploy the technologies to capture wind and solar power, the cheaper those technologies become.

It is doubling now every two years. Doubling every two years means multiplying by 1,000 in 20 years. At that rate we'll meet 100 percent of our energy needs in 20 years.