Accounts Quote by Frederick Soddy

I always thought that using more efficient energy sources, pushing the clean energy technologies such as renewable energies are important.

— Fatih Birol

Governments have always played an important role in energy investment, but this role has been increasing due to both geography and technology.

— Fatih Birol

The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

— Vaclav Smil

Nuclear is the only energy source that has proven capable of fully replacing fossil fuels at low-cost in wealthy nations. While hydro-electric dams can…

— Michael Shellenberger

Fossil fuels are raw materials that have to be extracted and processed. Wind and solar energy are different. The only costs associated with them…

— Tom Steyer

The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.

— Lamar S. Smith

The universal utilization of water power and its long-distance transmission will supply every household with cheap power and will dispense with the necessity of…

— Nikola Tesla

Presumably, technology has made man increasingly independent of his environment. But, in fact, technology has merely substituted nonrenewable resources for renewables, which is more…

— Herman E. Daly

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

— Ed Begley, Jr

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

Nuclear power and fossil fuels are the choices of the past. Renewable energy is the choice of the future that is here today.

— Hermann Scheer

Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are…

— Ted Nordhaus