Budgets Quote by Denis Hayes

100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think.

— John B. Quigley

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

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million…

— Bjorn Lomborg

If we could convert 0.03 percent of the sunlight that falls on the earth into energy, we could meet all of our projected needs for 2030.

— Ray Kurzweil

In 80% of the world, energy will be bought where it is economic. You have to help the rest of the world get energy…

— Bill Gates

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

We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

— Ban Ki-moon

“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

There are potentially hundreds of billion dollars, potentially more, that could be saved by moving to a clean energy system. Studies [on healthier diet]…

— Jill Stein

Humanity's future, to say nothing of its prosperity, will depend on how the world tackles two central energy challenges: securing reliable supplies of affordable…

— Fatih Birol

In just a few hundred years, we will have to cover the entire surface of the Earth in solar cells if we want to…

— Jeff Bezos

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