Quotes About Renewables

Finland, and all the other European countries, we are too dependent on imported energy. We should be using a broader variety of energy resources.

Stationary storage will be as big as the car business long term. The growth rate will probably be several times what it is for the car business.

What does the public want? It wants a vested interest in its own energy provision - driving more efficient behaviour. It wants greater choice and responsibility at a local level. And it wants increased use of renewables to protect the environment.

We shouldn't have stupid cars that use liquid fossil fuels. Come on, how outmoded is that? We have to get to the point where this is no longer a part of our experience.

Just as the far higher power densities of coal made the industrial revolution possible, the far lower power densities of solar and wind would make today's high-energy, urbanized, and industrial civilization impossible. And, as we have seen, for some advocates of renewables, that has always been the goal.

Human civilization would have to occupy one hundred to one thousand times more space if it were to rely solely on renewables

the trouble with renewables isn't fundamentally technical—it's natural.