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Al Gore Quotes about Energy

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The will to act is a renewable resource.

The will to act is a renewable resource.

Energy, Renewable Resources, Resources

"Sundance: 'An Inconvenient Sequel' Debuts to Rapturous Response" by Tatiana Siegel, www.hollywoodreporter.com. January 19, 2017.

I think the cost of energy will come down when we make this transition to renewable energy.

Thinking, Environmental, Energy

Hurricane Sandy is a disturbing sign of things to come. We must heed this warning and act quickly to solve the climate crisis. Dirty energy makes dirty weather.

Dirty, Weather, Energy

"Sandy puts climate change back on the US election agenda" by Suzanne Goldenberg, www.theguardian.com. October 31, 2012.

Once the renewable infrastructure is built, the fuel is free forever. Unlike carbon-based fuels, the wind and the sun and the earth itself provide fuel that is free, in amounts that are effectively limitless.

Wind, Forever, Energy

Al Gore (2009). “Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis”, Rodale Books

Today I challenge our nation to commit to producing 100 percent of our electricity from renewable energy and truly clean carbon-free sources within 10 years.

Years, Challenges, Energy

"Meet the Press" with Tom Brokaw, www.nbcnews.com. July 20, 2008.

Our insatiable drive to rummage deep beneath the surface of the earth is a willful expansion of our dysfunctional civilization into Nature.

Eugenics, Civilization, Energy

Al Gore (2013). “Earth in the Balance: Forging a New Common Purpose”, p.234, Routledge

The cumulative amount of man-made global pollution that's in the atmosphere now traps as much extra heat energy every day as would be released by 400,000 Hiroshima-class atomic bombs exploding every day. It's a big planet, but that's an awful lot of energy.

Atmosphere, Energy, Atomic Bomb

Source: www.businessinsider.com

The cost reductions for renewable energy continue downward in a very dramatic way. We're in the early stages of a sustainability revolution in the globe that has the scale of the industrial revolution but the speed of the digital revolution. And you see it with renewable energy and you see it with LED lighting, which takes a fraction of the energy for the existing bulbs. All new lights are going to be LED. Electric vehicles. There are a lot of changes underway right now. I'm excited by the prospect, and I look forward to working in the months and years to come to accelerate this transition.

Energy, Revolution, Dramatic

Source: www.businessinsider.com

Unless we act boldly and quickly to deal with the underlying causes of global warming, our world will undergo a string of terrible catastrophes.

Our World, Energy, Causes

Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

The way to bring gas prices down is to end our dependence on oil and use the renewable sources that can give us the equivalent of $1 per gallon gasoline.

Oil, Giving, Energy

"Energy crisis threatens U.S. survival, Gore says", www.cnn.com. July 18, 2008.

You're going to see new processes that utilize waste as the source of energy, so there's no petroleum consumed in the process - that makes the energy balance uniformly positive.

Balance, Energy, Waste

The ten hottest years in the atmospheric record, going back only 160 years, have been in the last eleven years.

Years, Energy, Records

The wind and the sun are free.

Wind, Energy, Sun

Consider a clock thermostat, and set it so that you're not using energy when you don't need it, when you're out of your house.

House, Energy, Needs

I doubt nuclear power will play a much larger role than it does now.

Play, Doubt, Energy

"An interview with accidental movie star Al Gore". Interview with David Roberts, grist.org. May 10, 2006.

When energy prices go up, the difficulty of projecting demand also goes up - uncertainty goes up.

Energy, Demand, Difficulty

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