Burning Quote by Christopher Flavin

Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German…

— Amory Lovins

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…

— William McDonough

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 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

Technological breakthroughs in energy storage will make renewable power cheap enough to use in more places and accelerate the move to electric cars and…

— Brian Deese

Sometimes I feel like a beetle crawling through a fusion power plant. I can feel a certain amount, see a certain amount, but I…

— Greg Bear

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

— Babatunde Fashola

When people conceptualize a cyber-attack, they do tend to think about parts of the critical infrastructure like power plants, water supplies, and similar sort…

— Edward Snowden

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and…

— John Kenneth Galbraith

Any first-generation technology will. But we are looking at carbon the same way we look at every pollutant under the Clean Air Act; we…

— Gina McCarthy

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next…

— Deval Patrick

When you look at the number of nuclear power plants in China and India, we can't afford not to pursue similar alternative energy sources.…

— Bob Latta