Climate change Quote by Christopher Flavin Download Open image “Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine...” — Christopher Flavin ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Climate change Decades Electricity Energy Environment Might States Sunshine United United states Wind
Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“This is the place to dispel the "solar myth." The United States is a relatively sunlit nation of low population density, a particularly favorable… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
There are jobs, money and survival in renewable energy. Our only safe future is sun power — Dave Hampton Copy Share Image
We're a society that demands electricity 24/7. This is very difficult with sun and wind. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I'm extremely confident that solar will be at least a plurality of power, and most likely a majority... in less than 20 years. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
For as long as anyone can remember, reliable, cheap electricity has been taken for granted in the United States. — Alex Berenson Copy Share Image
Twenty-six states have passed renewable portfolio standards, which simply says somewhere between 15% and 30% of their electricity will come from renewables by such-and-such… — Brian Schweitzer Copy Share Image
We need to invest dramatically in green energy, making solar panels so cheap that everybody wants them. Nobody wanted to buy a computer in… — Bjorn Lomborg Copy Share Image
People say we're running out of energy. That's only true if we stick with these old 19th century technologies. We are awash in energy… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
In the year 2000, the solar water heater behind me, which is being dedicated today, will still be here supplying cheap, efficient energy. A… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
It may be a hundred-year battle to turn around our industries and finally get everyone living on sustainable energy with technology that can keep… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
Building a world where we meet our own needs without denying future generations a healthy society is not impossible, as some would assert. The… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs. — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Already, China's world-leading solar industry provides water heating for 35 million buildings, and India's pioneering use of rainwater harvesting brings clean water to tens… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Renewable biofuels are meanwhile making inroads in the transportation fuels market and are beginning to have a measurable impact on demand for petroleum fuels,… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total… — Christopher Flavin Copy Share Image
Irish research will contribute to global progress and have the potential to help all countries realise the potential of their land sectors in addressing… — Enda Kenny Copy Share Image
My friends, this body - perhaps more than any other gathering in human history - now faces that difficult task. — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
There are many more traits that the climate deniers share with the creationists and Holocaust deniers and others who distort the truth. — Donald R. Prothero Copy Share Image
I talk to fashion designers and say I want some money to save the rainforest, and they say, 'Oh, I agree with you completely… — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Climate change poses clear, catastrophic threats. We may not agree on the extent, but we certainly can't afford the risk of inaction. — Rupert Murdoch Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
I do not underestimate the difficulty of the challenge that global climate change presents to us. It will take a significant effort and the… — Federico Pena Copy Share Image
First, climate change is the greatest long-term threat faced by humanity. It could cause more human and financial suffering than the two world wars… — David Miliband Copy Share Image
As a politician - particularly as a politician in a coalition - you quickly realise that compromise is a part of the game. But… — Edward Davey Copy Share Image
George H.W. Bush said we will lead on climate change, and we'll lead from the top. That was 30 years ago. And now Republicans… — Steve Bullock Copy Share Image
Climate change is not an excuse to give the federal government ever more power over private property and state resources. — Luther Strange Copy Share Image
Most Americans believe in fairness; we believe that people should work hard but there should be a safety net. We believe in saving the… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image