Burning Quote by Christopher Flavin

In the mid-1980s, operating problems took [nuclear] plants off-line so often that, on an annual basis, they operated at only about 55 percent of…

— Daniel Yergin

“The size of the “needed” transition to renewables is staggering. The world used more than 20,000 terawatt-hours of electricity19 in 2010, and the 160,000…

— Steve Goreham

The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating…

— Lester R. Brown

There's a limit to how much you can deploy renewables, like wind or solar. People will talk about getting up to 30 percent of…

— Nathan Myhrvold

“Suppose we would be able to build 200 Gigawatt worth of nuclear reactors each year or a total expected generation of roughly 1.580 TWh,…

— Mathijs Beckers

By the year 2000, such renewable energy sources could provide 40 percent of the global energy budget; by 2025, humanity could obtain 75 percent…

— Denis Hayes

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

— Narendra Modi

[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one…

— Stewart Brand

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines…

— Joseph J. Romm

The primary means of energy generation is going to solar. It will at least be a plurality, and probably be a slight majority in…

— Elon Musk

With ggreta power comes a large electricity bill.

— Tamika-leeigh

So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would…

— Elon Musk