“If every country committed to spending 0.05 per cent of GDP on researching non-carbon-emitting energy technologies, that would cost $25 billion a year, and it would do a lot more than massive carbon cuts to fight warming and save lives.” IfsYearsCountryFightingEnergyTechnologyCuttingCostCommittedSpendingBillionsMassiveCentsCarbonGdpSave A Life Author:Bjorn Lomborg
“There are billions of people on earth. They are all transmitting thoughts and impressions, most of which are not directed towards enlightenment. If you are not focused, you will pick up these energies.” PeopleIfsEarthEnergyEnlightenmentPicksFocusedBillionsImpression Author:Frederick Lenz
“Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.” WellsEnergyTechnologyBillionsValleysInvestorsSiliconSilicon ValleyNew Energy Author:Daniel Yergin
“Roughly two billion people participate in the money economy, with less than half of those living in the wealthy countries of the developed world. These affluent 800 million, however, account for more than 75 percent of the world's energy and resource consumption, and also create the bulk of its industrial, toxic, and consumer waste.” PeopleWorldTwoCountryEnergyHalfMillionsEconomyWastePercentResourcesAccountsBillionsConsumersWealthyToxicConsumptionConsumerismOverconsumptionAffluent Author:Stuart L. Hart
“If you want to improve the situation of the poorest two billion on the planet, having the price of energy go down substantially would be the best thing you could do for them.” IfsWantTwoWould BeEnergySituationPlanetsBillionsBest ThingsBeing The BestPoorest Author:Bill Gates
“Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.” PeopleWayI CanTwoWisdomTodayPainPoliticalDiesPoliticsEnergyNationsLeaderEconomyGoneMonthsSixOrganizationEducationalBillionsIdeologyLiberalismSix MonthsMachineryStarvationDeprivationPolitical LeadersBombshells Author:R. Buckminster Fuller
“And our size: The company this year is going to be close to $50 billion, so if that's the case and you can continue to grow that fast, I would rather put my energies to solving customer problems and growing our business than worrying about integrating and laying people off.” PeopleIfsYearsProblemEnergyGrowsCompanyCasesWorryEconomyGrowingSizeCustomersBillionsIntegrating Author:Kevin B. Rollins
“In sectors like energy, I haven't been arguing for more spending per se; I've been arguing that it doesn't make sense for us to spend $4 billion subsidizing an oil industry that's mature and very profitable. We should be using that money to finance clean energy of the future.” ShouldPoliticsEnergyHavensIndustryCleanClimate ChangeSpendingOilArguingBillionsFinanceMake SenseMatureProfitableClean EnergyOil Industry Author:Barack Obama
“Falling prices are driving renewable energy investment in India, which rose 13 per cent last year and is expected to surpass 10 billion dollars in 2015. Adoption of increasingly cost-effective renewables holds the genuine promise of a new age of socio-economic development, powered by clean, increasingly decentralised, and sustainable energy. The opportunity for India is tremendous.” YearsAgeLastsFallOpportunityEnergyEconomicDevelopmentPromiseCostIndiaDollarsRoseCleanInvestmentExpectedBillionsDrivingGenuineCentsLast YearAdoptionNew AgeRenewable EnergyEconomic DevelopmentSustainable Energy Author:Adnan