Coal Quote by Michael Shellenberger Download Open image “Neither solar nor wind are actually substitutes for coal or natural gas or oil.” — Michael Shellenberger ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Coal Gas Natural gas Oil Solar Wind
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. — Ralph Nader Copy Share Image
It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About… — T. Boone Pickens Copy Share Image
Wind and solar power are land-intensive, a green sin, but not energy-dense, and affordable only when heavily subsidized. And wind power must be supplemented… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
Today, wind is the cheapest energy in America; solar is not far behind. In time, fossil fuels will only get more and more expensive. — Mark Ruffalo Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The underlying problem with solar and wind is that they are too unreliable and energy-dilute. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get… — Mitt Romney Copy Share Image
“We need to stop using fossil fuels as soon as possible. Unfortunately, the two leading replacements of wind and solar have emerging health and… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even if we can solve the carbon problem for coal, it is still a non-renewable resource. At some point, coal supplies will drop. — Van Jones Copy Share Image
I remained quiet about the climate disinformation campaign because I was afraid of losing friends and funding. The few times I summoned the courage… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Nations are reorienting toward the national interest and away from Malthusianism and neoliberalism, which is good for nuclear and bad for renewables. The evidence… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Environmentalism, apocalyptic environmentalism in particular, has become the dominant religion of supposedly secular people in the West. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Reporters have an obligation to report accurately and fairly on all issues they cover, especially ones as important as energy and the environment. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Like many environmental documentaries, 'Planet of Humans' endorses debunked Malthusian ideas that the world is running out of energy. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
There is good evidence that the catastrophist framing of climate change is self-defeating because it alienates and polarizes many people. And exaggerating climate change… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
It was only with the rise of capitalism and the need for workers to be freer, more mobile, and prosperous, that societies were able… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
If solar and wind farms are needed to protect the natural environment, why do they so often destroy it? — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Chernobyl' is supposedly about the lies, arrogance, and suppression of criticism under Communism, but the mini-series portrays life in the Soviet Union in the… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
What we need to talk about is what we want America to look like: what a sustainable, economically prosperous America looks like in the… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Hawks and doves have long found common ground opposing the spread of nuclear weapons to non-nuclear states. — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
Assuming normal winter weather, we currently anticipate the coal markets to remain difficult through 2015; while we always strive to operate a full capacity… — Joe Craft Copy Share Image
Coal lay in ledges under the ground since the Flood, until a laborer with pick and windlass brings it to the surface. We may… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The only difference between black coal and a precious diamond is the amount of pressure it endured. — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
In that sense, I became politicized because the people in the coal mining villages who were involved in the struggle knew why they were… — Billy Bragg Copy Share Image
Dusty, dark, cold, and hard, coal has no beauty of its own, but when it is consummated by fire it is beautiful and becomes… — Frederica Mathewes-Green Copy Share Image
a TEN-YEAR-OLD lad in Indianapolis who was arrested for picking up coal along the side of railroad tracks is now in jail. If the… — Mother Jones Copy Share Image
Coal is the moral choice, particularly for the developing world... The model for the world right now should be Australia. Australia gets it. Scientifically… — Marc Morano Copy Share Image
Iron and coal dominated everywhere, from grey to black: the black boots, the black stove-pipe hat, the black coach or carriage, the black iron… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
I remember being very influenced by 'Taxi Driver', and also Tommy Lee Jones in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' a little bit. — Sam Rockwell Copy Share Image
I have visited sweatshops, factories, and crowded slums. If I could not see it, I could smell it. The foundation of society is laid… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
Shakespeare doesn't belong to the past. If his material is valid, it is valid now. It's like coal. The only meaningfulness of a piece… — Peter Brook Copy Share Image
