Climate Quote by Joseph J. Romm

“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

You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers…

— Mark Z. Jacobson

[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

Humankind has never transitioned to energy sources that are more costly, less reliable, and have a larger environmental footprint than the incumbent - and…

— Michael Shellenberger

The potential for alternative energy sources, mainly solar and wind power, to completely replace coal and gas for utility generation globally is, I think,…

— Jeremy Grantham

I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest…

— James Howard Kunstler

Replacing traditional sources of energy completely with renewable energy is going to be a challenging task. However, by adding renewable energy to the grid…

— Tulsi Tanti

There isn't enough renewable fuel in the world to crack our growing addiction to foreign oil. We need to decrease miles driven and increase…

— Kevin de Leon

It's going to cost trillions of dollars to rework the energy sources all over the world. Were going to have to move away from…

— Ted Turner

The hydrogen economy will make possible a vast redistribution of power, with far-reaching consequences for society. Today's centralized, top-down flow of energy, controlled by…

— Jeremy Rifkin

I'm all for alternative forms of energy, including wind, including solar, et cetera. But we need much more than wind and solar.

— Donald Trump

We could do some household and neighborhood or town wind energy. But even this will run up eventually against the problem of needing an…

— James Howard Kunstler