Energy Quote by Vaclav Smil Download Open image “The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.” — Vaclav Smil ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Energy Great Hope Quick Renewable energy Thinking Wishful thinking
I think that the world is in the middle of a huge transition that we have to make to renewable energy. We have to… — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
We need to really get very serious about a transition toward new and renewable sources of energy. — Patricia Espinosa Copy Share Image
I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy. — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Moving to 100 percent renewable energy is a good economic opportunity, one that the U.S. must seize before other nations take full advantage of… — Deb Haaland Copy Share Image
A transition to clean energy is about making an investment in our future. — Gloria Reuben Copy Share Image
100% renewable energy is 100% possible and can happen sooner than we think. — John B. Quigley Copy Share Image
We should be moving vigorously towards renewable energy. The technology of which is right here right now. — Josh Fox Copy Share Image
Transitioning to renewable energy sources that create and keep good-paying jobs in America must be our focus. — Alex Padilla Copy Share Image
I think a revolution transitioning from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy - somebody's going to be the 21st-century clean-energy superpower. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I want to see us move from a fossil fuel economy to a renewable economy - if not in my lifetime, then in the… — Brad Schneider Copy Share Image
Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat.… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Everyone [in higher education] was what I call drillers of deeper wells. These academics sit at the bottom of a deep well and they… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven. — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
I've read about 80 books a year for the past 50 years. I come from cultural breeding. I don't have a cellphone. When you… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
“I wrote this book because I wanted to narrate the great, and a truly nation-building, story of US manufacturing—and because I believe that without… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
Apple! Boy, what a story. No taxes paid, everything made abroad—yet everyone worships them. This new iPhone, there’s nothing new in it. Just a… — Vaclav Smil Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
By making conscious choices in our behavior and where we focus our attention, we can transform our experience of our body, decrease our biological… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Sport is not just about entertainment. It is equally about winning and losing, pooling and galvanising the energy of the youth, upgrading people's physical… — Nita Ambani Copy Share Image
Performance matters because games are built on great performance, but form factor and energy efficiency matter incredibly because they want to build something that's… — Jensen Huang Copy Share Image
Behind every word flows energy. If you use your words to gossip or babble about what you are going to do before you do… — Sonia Choquette Copy Share Image
If you ask another competitor, they may tell you they felt very competitive towards me. But I can tell you that my biggest competition… — Michelle Kwan Copy Share Image
I'm a vegetarian - I think there's a strong possibility, had I not become a vegetarian, I would not be working now. I became… — Bob Barker Copy Share Image
An artist's creative energy is ephemeral as a flower. It blooms and soon dies. No artist is great forever. Personally, I think I reached… — Kim Ki-duk Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm is the yeast that makes your hopes shine to the stars. Enthusiasm is the sparkle in your eyes, the swing in your gait.… — Henry Ford Copy Share Image
I've never even been into those supplements or any of that. I don't even drink energy shakes. I'm not into that kind of stuff.… — Paul Pierce Copy Share Image
Some would call me an environmentalist. I don't know why. I reuse the water that falls in my backyard in the winter. I reuse… — Ed Begley, Jr Copy Share Image