Energy Quotes - Page 74

Thirty percent of the Nation's energy comes off the gulf coast.

It's a vicious cycle. While systems become denser, their energy efficiency has decreased. Devices are getting smaller and smaller, but they are getting hotter.

Americans are paying for our lack of an energy policy with their jobs and out of their pocketbooks.

Think on a 50-year scale, which is a much more natural time-scale for global warming. The US is right now spending about 200 million dollars annually on research into renewable energy.

Irene's got a middle name, and it's Global Warming.

I have a particular relationship with Vinod Khosla because he's got a lot of very interesting science-based energy startups.

Energy innovation is not a nationalistic game.

The trouble with energy farming is that the energy isn't always where you want to use it, and it isn't always when you want to use it.

The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.

What are the top 20 universities in the world that do good materials research that might create carbon fibers to do jet stream kites or new magnets that will allow [energy] generation to be done up there and you just bring the electricity down. You either have to bring down rotational energy, which is hard, or you have to have the generator up there and bring down the electricity. Well, putting the generator up there is hard to do because it's too heavy.

So on the demand side [for energy], there have been a variety of policies that globally have been way over $50 billion a year of tax credits, raising the price of electricity through things like renewable portfolio standards, so the total amount of money that's gone into sending a price signal to push up demand versus what would happen without it has been gigantic.

In energy, you have to plan and do research way in advance, sometimes decades in advance to get a new system that's safer, doesn't require us to go around the world to get all our oil.

Energy is liberated matter, matter is energy waiting to happen.

Present annual world energy consumption is about equal to the annihilation energy of 4 tons of matter.

To be thrown upon one's own resources is to be cast into the very lap of fortune; for our faculties then undergo a development and display an energy of which they were previosly unsusceptible.

When men are young, they want experience and when they have gained experience, they want energy.

I look at ANWR (Artic National Wildlife Refuge) as a poison pill in the energy bill.

I'm so dependent on reacting to the other actors on the set, and to the director. I'm very responsive. I react. And I treasure the energy that reaction gives.

If you're aware of injustice, you can either ignore it, say there is nothing you can do about it, complain about it and not do anything, or put your energies into doing something about it.

There's a lot of noise in the world, and the internet magnifies that energy.

Anger was a waste of time and energy. Anger was useless."Anger" was the label given to the emotion that accomplished nothing.

Since Europe is dependent on imports of energy and most of its raw materials, it can be subdued, if not quite conquered, without all those nuclear weapons the Soviets have aimed at it simply through the shipping routes and raw materials they control.

A low-carbon, clean energy economy can be an engine of growth for decades to come.

I hope we can all agree that, instead of continuing to subsidize yesterday's energy sources. We need to invest in tomorrow's.

Energy is the golden thread that connects economic growth, increased social equity, and an environment that allows the world to thrive.