“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
“We have seven pillars of development. India has a cutting edge information technology industry. We are setting up a technology park. We would like to see technology penetration iin education. Besides, we would like to see cooperation in industries like fashion, filmmaking, ship-building, education, health and energy.” EnergyTechnologyCuttingFashionInformationBuildingDevelopmentIndustryIndiaSevenEdgesSettingShipsSettingsParksCooperationFilmmakingPillarsInformation TechnologyCutting EdgePenetration Author:Kamla Persad-Bissessar
“I drove an electric car for seven years because of its advanced technology, not because I have any concerns about energy resources. I have none at all. And when environmentalists say that global warming is dangerous, unprecedented and that we'll have a tipping point for atmospheric carbon dioxide, it's just nonsense.” YearsEnergyTechnologyDangerousCarResourcesConcernSevenGlobal WarmingNonsenseElectricCarbonSeven YearsUnprecedentedEnvironmentalistCarbon DioxideTippingTipping PointElectric CarAdvanced Technology Author:Burt Rutan
“Even Silicon Valley investors have put well over a $1 billion in new energy technologies.” WellsEnergyTechnologyBillionsValleysInvestorsSiliconSilicon ValleyNew Energy Author:Daniel Yergin
“I am in the process of trying to decide whether I can make a substantive and productive contribution to the policy-making process. I was always there because I wanted to work on the pressing issues of the day - I'm interested in energy, I'm interested in the climate bill and technology policy.” TryingI CanWantedEnergyProcessTechnologyIssuesPolicyBillsClimateContributionProductivePolicy Making Author:Charles Bass
“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“Getting enough energy to satisfy the needs of the developing world without bringing on an eco-disaster is not going to be easy. It will require a marriage of science and technology with good international policy, something that is always hard to bring off. We need to get it right this time.” WorldNeedsHardEnoughEnergyEasyTechnologyPolicyInternationalDisasterDevelopingScience And TechnologyEco Author:Burton Richter
“I know this about the American people: We welcome competition. We'll match our ingenuity, our energy, our experience and technology, our spirit and enterprise against anyone.” PeopleKnowsAmericaSpiritEnergyTechnologyCompetitionWelcomeEnterpriseIngenuity Author:George H. W. Bush
“Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.” EnergyTechnologyResourcesSavingFasterEfficiencyImprovingCheaper Author:Amory Lovins
“We are victims of our own success. We have let technology lead the way, pushing ever faster to newer, faster, and more powerful systems, with nary a moment to rest, contemplate, and to reflect upon why, how, and for whom all this energy has been expended.” WayHas BeensMomentsEnergyPowerfulTechnologyVictimFasterPushingContemplating Author:Donald A. Norman
“Universities are an example of organizations dominated wholly by intellectuals; yet, outside pure science, they have not been an optimal milieu for the unfolding of creative talents. In neither art, music, literature, technology and social theory, nor planning have the Universities figured as originators or as seedbeds of new talents and energies.” ArtLiteratureEnergySocialTechnologyCreativeTalentExampleTheoryPureOrganizationUniversityPlanningUnfoldingOptimalArt MusicMilieuNew TalentSocial Theory Author:Eric Hoffer
“We [American nation] can now, by virtue of new technology, actually get all the energy we need in North America without having to go to the - the Arabs or the Venezuelans or anyone else. That's why my policy starts with a very robust policy to get all that energy in North America, become energy-secure.” NeedsAmericaEnergyNationsTechnologyVirtuePolicySecureNew TechnologyRobustNorth AmericaVenezuelans Author:Mitt Romney
“Russia must realise its full potential in high-tech sectors such as modern energy technology, transport and communications, space and aircraft building.” EnergySpaceTechnologyModernBuildingCommunicationRussiaRealisingTransportAircraftFull Potential Author:Vladimir Putin
“We should also challenge this country to come up with strategies and technologies that allow us to produce nuclear energy without necessarily producing a byproduct that can be converted to something far more dangerous. I believe that can be done. It may not be done tomorrow, but it clearly needs to be worked on.” NeedsShouldBelieveMayCountryDoneEnergyI BelieveChallengesTechnologyDangerousProduceTomorrowStrategyCome UpNuclearNuclear Energy Author:Tom Vilsack
“Climate change isn't just an environmental issue; it's a technology, water, food, energy, population issue. None of this happens in a vacuum.” HappensEnergyWaterTechnologyIssuesClimateEnvironmentalClimate ChangePopulationVacuumsEnvironmental Issues Author:David Titley
“I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes.” PeoplePurposeEnergyTechnologyNuclearPeacefulIranianNuclear Technology Author:Maurice Motamed
“I have traveled many times outside Iran, and have discussed the issue [of the Iranian nuclear project]. I have been asked for my opinion and that of the Iranian Jewish community, and I have always emphasized that the Iranian people has the right to obtain nuclear technology and energy for peaceful purposes. The Iranian people must not give up this right under any circumstances - and indeed, it will not.” PeopleGivingHas BeensPurposeEnergyCommunityOpinionTechnologyIssuesCircumstancesGiving UpProjectsNuclearPeacefulIranTraveledNot Giving UpIranianJewish CommunityNuclear Technology Author:Maurice Motamed
“Paradigm shifts aren't always obvious when you're in the middle of one. Danny Kennedy makes a compelling case for why solar power is the crucial energy technology of the 21st century.” EnergyCasesTechnologyMiddleCenturyObviousCrucialCompelling21st CenturyParadigmParadigm ShiftSolar Power Author:Michael Brune
“America needs to be able to be energy-independent, and the electric vehicle, the battery technology is one way of getting there.” WayNeedsAbleAmericaEnergyTechnologyIndependentOne WayVehicleElectricBatteriesElectric Vehicles Author:Jennifer Granholm
“Language is a more recent technology. Your body language, your eyes, your energy will come through to your audience before you even start speaking.” BodyEyeEnergyLanguageTechnologyAudienceYour BodyBody Language Author:Peter Guber
“Japan is already a leader in energy efficiency, and it has a wealth of innovative technologies. We must put this expertise to use creating a model for growth and sustainability that we can share with the world.” WorldUseEnergyGrowthWealthLeaderTechnologyShareCreatingModelsJapanSustainabilityEfficiencyInnovativeExpertiseEnergy Efficiency Author:Yoshihiko Noda
“A half-century after racing the Russians to the moon, the U.S. is barely suiting up in the international race to secure interests in the Arctic.” SciencePoliticsEnergyInterestNatureLeadershipSpaceRaceHalfHistoryTechnologyGenerationsCenturyPolicyMoonInternationalSecureIdeologyRacingForeign PolicyDiplomacyArctic Author:Rick Larsen
“Now, once again, we find ourselves facing rising gas prices, and the question is: This time, are we going to learn from the past? Are we finally going to get serious about energy conservation? Of course not! We have the brains of mealworms! So we need to get more oil somehow. As far as I can figure, there's only one practical way to do this. That's right: We need to clone more dinosaurs. We have the technology, as was shown in two blockbuster scientific movies, Jurassic Park and Jurassic Park Returns with Exactly the Same Plot. Once we have the dinosaurs, all we need is an asteroid.” WayNeedsI CanTwoPastCoursesEnergyBrainTechnologyFiguresSeriousReturnOilPracticalsParksRisingGasPlotConservationDinosaursAsteroidsBlockbusterLearn From The PastGas PricesJurassic ParkEnergy Conservation Author:Dave Barry
“It means joining with allies to deploy renewable energy technologies -- both at home and around the world -- to confront the very real and present danger of potentially irreversible climate change.” WorldMeanRealHomeEnergyChangeTechnologyDangerClimateClimate ChangeAround The WorldAlliesJoiningRenewable EnergyIrreversible Author:Bernie Sanders
“The technologies for the alternative energy sources exists today. The economics are compelling. The public health is compelling. Why would we maintain a focus on a 17th-century technology, when there are 21st-century alternatives that are both necessary and available? And the answer is the subversion of democracy.” TodayEnergyAnswersTechnologyDemocracyFocusCenturySourceEconomicsAvailableAlternativesCompelling21st CenturyPublic HealthEnergy SourcesSubversion17th CenturyAlternative Energy Author:Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
“The sun-belt and the technology belt can become very powerful when they begin to understand themselves as a community: a community of energy, water and climate security; a community for their common future.” EnergyPeaceWaterCommunityPowerfulCommonTechnologySunSecurityClimateBeltsVery Powerful Author:Prince Hassan bin Talal
“This is pretty much the infrastructural stuff that comes along with large quantities of energy. Whichever technology we are looking at has serious hazardous issues.” EnergyStuffTechnologyIssuesSeriousQuantity Author:Stewart Brand
“For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.” EnergyTechnologyGenerationsTraditionalOptimisticCaptureElectricCarbonCoalUnlikelyIntriguedThermalElectric PowerGeothermalGeothermal Energy Author:Vinod Khosla