Quotes About Renewable

From landmark investments in renewable energy to bold action to tackle the climate crisis, Virginia is at the forefront of innovative efforts to protect our environment, and addressing the problem of plastic pollution is an important part of this work.

If we want to stabilize the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at some level - it really doesn't matter which level - you end up having to stop emissions virtually completely.

Over the past two years, the Obama Administration and USDA have worked to build a foundation for sustainable economic growth in rural America. At the center of our vision is an effort to increase domestic production and use of renewable energy.

Anger, it turns out, is a renewable source of fuel.

A massive campaign must be launched to de-develop the United States… [we] must design a stable, low-consumption economy.

No architect should design buildings that import a huge amount of energy.

I think, in the long run, we have to wean ourselves from a carbon-based economy. We absolutely have to.

I don't think you can make America great again by trying to go back to an old coal-based manufacturing economy that doesn't really exist anymore.

Growing hemp as nature designed it is vital to our urgent need to reduce greenhouse gases and ensure the survival of our planet.

Wood was the main source of energy in the world until the eighteen-fifties, and it still could be. Roughly a tenth of the annual growth of all the trees on earth could yield alcohol enough to run everything that now uses coal and petroleum—every airplane, every industry, every automobile.

Energy conservation is the foundation of energy independence.

Quite frankly, there is no answer to climate change without substantially, dramatically, increasing the amount of renewable energy in the global energy system.

You know what happens when windmills collapse into the sea? A splash.

The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.

We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.

Renewable energy is proven technology, the price is dropping, the rest of the world is going that way, that's where our investment should be going as well.

It's time to transition beyond our fossil fuel addiction to a just economy based on green jobs, renewable energy, and local organic food.

Certain food-based biofuels like biodiesel have always been a bad idea. Others like corn ethanol have served a useful purpose and essentially are obsoleting themselves.

I see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow fuel and food and put him back in business again

Calculated globally, human society consumes the equivalent of 400 years' worth of ancient solar energy (expressed in terms of the net primary productivity of plants during previous geological eras) each year through our use of fossil fuels.

even if all fossil fuel runs out (or we decide to leave it in the ground so as not to fry the planet), there is no conceivable shortage of nuclear fuel to burn in fast reactors.

Make no mistake: opposing low-carbon technologies is an implicit vote for a high-carbon energy system, and opponents must recognise this real-world trade-off."[

rocket mass heater, a homemade furnace so efficient that you can hold your open palm over the chimney. There's no heat or smoke or pollution because everything gets burned. Whereas conventional furnaces gobble valuable resources like wood or gas, only to create waste in the form of smoke and escaped carbon, these devices transform waste into a valuable resource: heat.

Biofuels are the future of energy in this nation and around the world