Elon Musk Quotes

If France can produce 80 percent of its electricity with nuclear power, why can't we?

The only thing that really scales up apart from nuclear is solar power from other people's deserts.

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.

For the first time in history we have got more energy out of something than we put in … [but] …. Anyone who expects a source of power from the transformation of the atom is talking moonshine.

I want to work hard toward my goal that there will be zero nuclear power generation.

There is nothing more costly than nuclear power.

I think the likelihood that combustion will continue to represent the large portion of the power unit world is very small.

We will work on maximizing the introduction of energy conservation and renewable energy, while lowering our dependence on nuclear power generation as much as possible.

Why would you want to shut down a nuclear plant, which requires at most about 1 square mile of land, to replace that power source with windmills, which would require 300 square miles of land to be paved over?

There are no oil rigs in the Durham region of Ontario and the only energy that our area is known for is the electricity generated from nuclear power.

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 wind and the sun are free.

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!

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We'll always need energy. We need to communicate, too, but we're not stuck with hand gestures and smoke signals. There are better ways to power our future than by digging fossil fuel from the ground and setting it on fire.

I've always thought of nuclear as something that's good for the environment. I worry about my polar bears.

Solar power is going to be absolutely essential to meeting growing energy demands while staving off climate change.

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.

You got to be just stupid to not be focused on alternative energy.

It's my view that solar energy may be the ultimate solution for energy for most of the world. I believe, based on what little I know about it, that there is a possibility of a breakthrough.

I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.

We should not just consume hydrocarbon fuel but use it to develop nuclear energy, hydro power and renewable energy sources.

There is no need for nuclear. The world can be powered by wind, water and sun alone.

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

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun