Vaclav Smil Quotes

I'm not crying over surplus capacity... Surplus capacity is good for India. Surplus capacity means we can get more investors, can get more households and promise them 24/7 power.

Well, we're trying to patch and fix and put a cast on a broken system here. You can call it what you want, but we'll continue to purchase power in a private market.

The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants.

Power plants are an infrastructure backbone that I want to be seriously involved in; this is because the country is rapidly developing and has high demand for electricity.

We're a superpower with a Third World grid.

We often take for granted that our lights will come on when we flip the light switch, but the reality is that our reliability standards and the current state of the transmission grid leave us all vulnerable to blackouts.

The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.

Why is electricity so expensive these days? Why does it cost so much for something I can make with a balloon and my hair?

This ability to have reliable sources of energy and a reliable transmission of energy here in North America is critical for both of us and for Mexico as we want to keep our economies growing.

For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States.

Today, India consumes about 682 watts per capita, far lesser than developed nations. As India develops, it will definitely require a lot more energy.

If we can rebuild the electric grid of Iraq, we can do it here at home.

Use of energy-efficient LEDs, pumps, fans, and air-conditioners will save power consumption and reduces the peak load.

The Moscow energy system has never sustained such a load.

The consumption and production of energy is a major component of the global economy.

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

Global energy security is a vital part of America's national security.

Long-term power purchase agreements are very important from an Indian perspective, not only in terms of supplying regular power across the country, but also for efficacy of the transmission network.

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

We started focusing on this in earnest late summer and early fall. I can build more power plants. In the 12 years before us, not a single plant of major consequence was built.

Yet since the 1950s, little has been done to prepare for our country's current or future energy needs.

It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.

U.S. economic prosperity is closely tied to the availability of a reliable and affordable supply of energy.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

The United States consumes power per land-area at a rate three times the average. Even though they are more energy efficient, densely populated industrial countries like Germany, Britain and Japan have even bigger power consumption per area.