Wind turbines Quote by Steve Goreham

[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

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 rushed into renewable energy without any thought. The schemes are largely hopelessly inefficient and unpleasant. I personally can't stand windmills at any price.

— James Lovelock

Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines…

— Joseph J. Romm

To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and…

— Lamar Alexander

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

Windmills installed around the world converting their direct current into alternating current and feeding the electric energy into the world network can harvest the…

— R. Buckminster Fuller

The potential of renewable energy is immense.

— Tulsi Tanti

Globally, you're seeing a big, big trend towards large installations of renewable energies across the world. You are going to see huge installations of…

— Chris Mooney

The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total…

— Christopher Flavin