Bill Gates Quotes

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've got to find another way of producing energy.

Just refrigerator efficiency saves more energy than all that we're generating from renewables, excluding hydroelectric power... I cannot impress upon you how important energy efficiency is.

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

Energy is actually harder; it takes more time to get a product, but if you do it's a very, very big market and the constraints of doing that in a clean way are more obvious all the time.

Texas has long been known as the nation's largest energy producer, but we are equally proud of our distinction as the nation's leading energy innovator.

It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil.

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.

I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.

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.

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

We’re not going to run out of wind.

We can turn your bottles back into oil. We can burn it to make energy. Our we can put it in a landfill. There’s a green spectrum. And a cost spectrum. The most green is the most expensive.

This is the beginning of a trend that will only accelerate, We're talking abouit an infinite feul source.

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

Hydropower is a clean and renewable energy source that provides affordable power throughout the country.

Of course we have to use coal... the renewable energy sources will supplement the supply from coal.

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

India has now graduated from megawatts to gigawatts in terms of renewable energy production.

We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now.

I want to control our own energy by developing oil and natural gas but also the energy sources of the future.

We have to transform our energy system.

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.

We’re making new investments in the development of gasoline and diesel and jet fuel that’s actually made from a plant-like substance-algae... We could replace up to 17 percent of the oil we import for transportation with this fuel that we can grow right here in the United States.

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