R. Buckminster Fuller Quotes

Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.

We’re not going to run out of wind.

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

First, there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over the globe... Here is an almost incalculable power at our disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.

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

The idea that the growing demand for energy worldwide can be met with energy from nuclear power is nonsense.

Not only will atomic power be released, but someday we will harness the rise and fall of the tides and imprison the rays of the sun.

Nearly one third of Japan would have had to evacuate from their communities…. I came to believe that we should halt further operations of nuclear energy that entail such huge risks…. Japan can supply its energy needs without nuclear power

We will harness the sun and the winds and the soil to fuel our cars and run our factories.

When we learn how to store electricity, we will cease being apes ourselves; until then we are tailless orangutans. You see, we should utilize natural forces and thus get all of our power. Sunshine is a form of energy, and the winds and the tides are manifestations of energy. Do we use them? Oh, no! We burn up wood and coal, as renters burn up the front fence for fuel. We live like squatters, not as if we owned the property.

The wind and the sun are free.

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

Art can play a major role. I look at art as an alternative source of energy, the same way we might look at wind or solar or lithium batteries.

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

We've got to find another way of producing energy.

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

America is number one in wind power.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

We need to stop burning fossil fuels and utilize only wind, water, and solar power with all generation of power coming from individual or small community units like windmills, waterwheels, and solar panels. Sea transportation should be by sail...Air transportation should be by solar powered blimps when air transportation is necessary.

Wind power, if not properly planned and sited, can harm birds and bats (although Danish studies of 10,000 bird kills revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills). Alternative energy sources are absolutely necessary. Global warming will kill birds and bats, as well as other species, in much greater numbers than wind power.

Clean energy is hippy power. But its also cowboy power, it's rancher power, it's Appalachian power.

Nobody is trying to save energy. We're trying to shift our use of fuel. Forget saving energy; if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts.

It's a lot harder to push forward things, like energy policy. There's a big dream out there about wind and solar power.

...if we get the right kind of energy, there are endless amounts. I think we should be developing every kind of alternative fuel that is available to us. That includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind. Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean up the environment we should be working really hard on developing.