Energy Quote by Michael Shellenberger

Renewables require the use of vastly more land, longer and less-utilized transmission lines, and large amounts of storage whether from lithium batteries, new dams,…

— 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

Just as fossil fuels from conventional sources are finite and are becoming depleted, those from difficult sources will also run out. If we put…

— David Suzuki

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

— Fatih Birol

I actually argue that renewables are worse than fossil fuels. It's a physical manifestation of lower power densities. More land, more materials, more mining,…

— Michael Shellenberger

There's no free lunch. If you want an industrial economy, you need energy. If you want energy, it will produce pollution. You can have…

— Charles Krauthammer

Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide…

— Al Gore

Renewable energy is far more labor-intensive than fossil fuel production.

— Bill McKibben

Why do we send valuable items like aluminium and food waste to landfill when we can turn them into new cans and renewable energy?…

— Hilary Benn

Nonrenewable resources should be exploited, but at a rate equal to the creation of renewable substitutes.

— Herman E. Daly

Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the…

— Jimmy Carter

The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively…

— Charles Duhigg