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Renewable
Energy
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We
can create a more sustainable, cleaner and safer world
by making wiser energy choices.
-- Robert
Alan Silverstein
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Energy
conservation is the foundation of energy independence.
-- Thomas H. Allen
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The two most abundant forms of power on earth are
solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper…
~ Ed
Begley, Jr.
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Under the rule of the "free market" ideology, we have
gone through two decades of an energy crisis without
an effective energy policy. Because of an easy and
thoughtless reliance on imported oil, we have no adequate
policy for the conservation of gasoline and other
petroleum products. We have no adequate policy for
the development or use of other, less harmful forms
of energy. We have no adequate system of public transportation.
-- Wendell
Berry
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With
its array of gadgets and machines, all powered by energies
that are destructive of land or air or water, and connected
to work, market, school, recreation, etc., by gasoline engines,
the modern home is a veritable factory of waste and destruction.
It is the mainstay of the economy of money. But within the
economies of energy and nature, it is a catastrophe. It
takes in the world’s goods and converts them into garbage,
sewage, and noxious fumes—for none of which have we found
a use.
-- Wendell
Berry
This
curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon
develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields,
shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and
so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the
energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and
weakness of character. We don’t know how to use energy or
what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our
time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of
human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel
energy.
-- Wendell
Berry
The
problems are our lives. In the "developed" countries, at
least, the large problems occur because all of us are living
either partly wrong or almost entirely wrong. It was not
just the greed of corporate shareholders and the hubris
of corporate executives that put the fate of Prince William
Sound into one ship; it was also our demand that energy
be cheap and plentiful.
-- Wendell
Berry
Biofuels
are the future of energy in this nation and around the world
-- Rod Blagojevich
We've
embarked on the beginning of the last days of the age of
oil. Embrace the future and recognize the growing demand
for a wide range of fuels or ignore reality and slowly—but
surely—be left behind.
-- Mike Bowlin, chairman and CEO of ARCO (now BP)
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I
believe that the average guy in the street will give
up a great deal, if he really understands the cost
of not giving it up. In fact, we may find that, while
we're drastically cutting our energy consumption,
we're actually raising our standard of living.
-- David
R. Brower
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"Is
the minor convenience of allowing the present generation
the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every
10 years worth the major hazard of exposing the next
20,000 generations to this lethal waste?"
-- David
R. Brower
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The
foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind
and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy.
-- -Lester A. Brown, Michael Renner, Brian Halweil
We want
to see…the efficient production and use of energy, so that
the products we produce and the way we produce them pose
no threat to the world's natural environment…economic development…so
that more and more of the world's population can enjoy…the
things which the energy industry supplies…(and) a society
in which ideas and knowledge move freely.
-- John Browne, Group Chief Executive, British Petroleum
Company
The
word "energy" incidentally equates with the Greek word for
"challenge." I think there is much to learn in thinking
of our federal energy problem in that light. Further, it
is important for us to think of energy in terms of a gift
of life.
-- Thomas Carr
Energy
will be the immediate test of our ability to unite
this Nation, and it can also be the standard around
which we rally. On the battlefield of energy we
can win for our Nation a new confidence, and we
can seize control again of our common destiny.
~ Jimmy
Carter
We
simply must balance our demand for energy with our
rapidly shrinking resources. By acting now we can
control our future instead of letting the future
control us.
~ Jimmy
Carter
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Because
we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare
quickly for a third change, to strict conservation
and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy
sources, like solar power.
~ Jimmy
Carter
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"The risks of transporting deadly nuclear waste, the
environmental justice impacts and the long-term health
effects of both these projects are untenable...We
cannot afford to be silent on these important issues."
~ James
Cromwell
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I
know that nuclear is better than fossil fuels when
it comes to carbon dioxide, but nuclear energy is
by no means clean. We don't know what to do with the
waste we already have and it seems like a bad idea
to me to make more when we have so many cleaner options
such as wind and solar.
-- Sheryl
Crow
the
cheapest energy is the energy you don't use in the
first place.
--
Sheryl
Crow
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You
have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies,
you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether
it's solar or different kinds of fuel...
-- Ted
Danson
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Hydrogen
is the most common element in the universe, and has the
potential to become an inexpensive source of energy for
neighborhoods, light and heavy duty vehicles, and industry.
-- Charlie Dent
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I
urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask
local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to
purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy
green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may
determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable
planet for generations to come.
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"The
use of plant oil as fuel may seem insignificant today.
But such products can in time become just as important
as kerosene and these coal-tar-products of today."
~ Rudolf
Diesel, inventor of the diesel engine, which originally
ran on peanut oil.
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"Human
beings should only use technology which if the worst
case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely
nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial
world where people are allowed to make errors. Because
human creativity has to do with being allowed to make
errors. We want an error-friendly environment."
-- Hans-Peter
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"I'd
put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source
of power! I hope we don't have to wait 'til oil and coal
run out before we tackle that."
~ Thomas Edison (1847–1931)
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Giving
society cheap, abundant energy… would be the equivalent
of giving an idiot child a machine gun.
-- Paul
Ehrlich
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We
should not be drilling for oil anywhere because burning
oil and coal and natural gas is what's destroying
our environment, our climate. And we need the climate
if we're going to eat.
-- Paul
Ehrlich
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why
aren't we working very hard to deploy more various forms
of solar power, wind energy, which is a form of solar power,
direct solar, starting to build a hydrogen economy and so
on? In other words, we could do these things, but we're
still looking for more, we're fighting a huge war to get
our hands on a material, oil, and also in Central Asia,
in Afghanistan on gas, when those are things we shouldn't
be burning. We're not running out of fossil fuels. We're
running out of environment.
-- Paul
Ehrlich
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Since
I do not forsee that atomic energy is to be a great
boon for a long time, I have to say that for the present
it is a menace. Perhaps it is well that it should
be. It may intimidate the human race into bringing
order into its international affairs, which, without
the presence of fear, it would not do.
--
Albert
Einstein
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...if
we get the right kind of energy, there are endless
amounts. I think we should be developing every kind
of alternative fuel that is available to us. That
includes hydrogen to soybeans, from solar to wind.
Whatever we can find that is going to help us clean
up the environment we should be working really hard
on developing.
-- Morgan
Freeman
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Ultimately,
I believe -- because energy is so central to our lives
-- that a common global project to rewire the world
with clean energy could be the first step on a path
to global peace and global democracy -- even in today's
deeply troubled world.
-- Ross
Gelbspan
"Climate
change is not just another issue. It is the issue
that, unchecked, will swamp all other issues. The
only hope lies in all the countries of the world coming
together around a common global project to rewire
the world with clean energy. This is a path to peace
--- peace among people, and peace between people and
nature."
-- Ross
Gelbspan
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"Licensing a nuclear power plant is in my view, licensing
random premeditated murder. First of all, when you license
a plant, you know what you're doing--so it's premeditated.
You can't say, "I didn't know." Second, the evidence
on radiation-producing cancer is beyond doubt. I've
worked fifteen years on it [as of 1982], and so have
many others. It is not a question any more: radiation
produces cancer, and the evidence is good all the way
down to the lowest doses."
-- Dr.
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…the
accident at the Chernobyl nuclear plant…has painfully
affected the Soviet people, and shocked the international
community. For the first time, we confront the real
force of nuclear energy, out of control.
~ Mikhail
Gorbachev
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"The
answer is to end our reliance on carbon-based fuels...
If
we succeed, we create booming new industries, wealth,
clean secure energy and maybe we prevent the greatest
disaster so far in human history, saving millions
of lives while improving billions more. If we fail,
basically it's business as usual while things slowly
get worse all around us."
~ Al
Gore
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With
each green step you take, you help solve our planet's problems.
When you buy fair trade coffee, bananas, chocolate, and
gifts, you ensure a fair wage for farmers and producers
around the world. By choosing organic foods and organic
cotton clothing, you put an end to the dangerous pesticides
used on conventional crops. By making your home more energy-efficient,
you stop global warming and crate a more secure energy future.
You restore the Earth. You save lives.
-- Alicia
Gravitz
If you
look around Green Festival, you'd be convinced that the
movement for a just and sustainable world is booming. But
is it? The answer is a resounding 'yes'! And success is
being fueled by creative, passionate, people using powerful
economic strategies to promote fair trade, renewable energy,
local economies, and investment in healthy communities.
-- Alicia
Gravitz
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“To
me, the path to a sustainable energy future seems
very obvious. We have to find a way to tap into a
very small fraction of the sun’s energy to convert
it to a form suitable for supplying what are in fact
the relatively small additional requirements of modern
life. … I think the technological challenge can be
met. It remains to be seen whether the political and
organisational challenges involved in recognising
and addressing the need to change from the status
quo can also be met on a reasonable timescale.”
~ Martin
Green
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"I
haven't been to a gas station in years. It feels so
good not to be a slave to gas, playing the whole game
of war for oil."
-- Daryl
Hannah
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I
love the idea that biodiesel has the potential to
support farmers, especially the family farms.
-- Daryl
Hannah
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"The sunshine that strikes American roads each year
contains more energy than all the fossil fuels used
by the entire world."
~ Denis
Hayes
"An
acre of windy prairie could produce between $4,000
and 10,000 worth of electricity per year – which is
far more than the value of the land’s crop of corn
or wheat."
~ Denis
Hayes
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"America
has the technology and resources to meet all its energy
needs while safeguarding the earth's climate. The
urgent question now is, 'Do we have the will?' At
least one city does, and I'm proud to live in it."
~ Denis
Hayes
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We
can dream together a dream of a better world, an
ever-renewing, organic-based earth-community. I
believe we can achieve a large part of it in our
lifetime.
~ Randy
Hayes
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It
is evident that the fortunes of the world's human population,
for better or for worse, are inextricably interrelated with
the use that is made of energy resources.
-- M. King Hubbert
Renewable
energy also creates more jobs than other sources of energy
- most of these will be created in the struggling manufacturing
sector, which will pioneer the new energy future by investment
that allows manufacturers to retool and adopt new technologies
and methods.
-- Jay Inslee
We
had some major successes and we did so because the country
embraced the spirit of Earth Day and embraced this concept
that we have to have forward-looking, visionary environmental
policy and energy policy in this country.
-- Jay Inslee
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What
do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats
all have in common? They fear solar energy.
--
Michio
Kaku
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I
want to see us to explore outer space. But I want to do
it safely, without the loss of human life, and democratically:
where is the free-wheeling debate on this question? Only
one force can stop this mission: the will of the American
people. They have not been asked. Do they want to endanger
their loved ones, their industry with this launch? One force
is more powerful than plutonium, the spirit of the American
people united."
--
Michio
Kaku
"Solar
is cost effective right now. When you consider the cost
to our health from air pollution, solar is just as competitive
as any other energy source."
~ Thomas P. Kay
Right
now, other frightening imperatives have distracted us so
far from the program of benevolence toward our planet that
it seems we might just try to burn the whole world for fuel
to keep ourselves guarded and cozy. But that is not the
expressed will of our people. Most of us do understand,
when we can calm down and think clearly, that whether we
are at peace or at war, the lives that hang in the balance
are not just ours but the millions more that create the
support system and biological context for humanity. More
and more of us are listening for the silent alarm, stopping
in our tracks, wishing to salvage the parts of this earth
we haven’t yet wrecked.
-- Barbara Kingsolver
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It
is time for a sustainable energy policy which puts
consumers, the environment, human health, and peace
first.
-- Dennis
Kucinich
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"Rely
on renewable energy flows that are always there whether
we use them or not, such as, sun, wind and vegetation: on
energy income, not depletable energy capital."
~ Amory Lovins
Drilling
in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve
the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's by
just 3 miles a gallon and save more oil within 10 years
than we could ever produce from the Arctic Refuge…
-- Massachusetts Congressman Ed Markey
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Breaking
America's oil addiction would not lead to a future
of sackcloth and ashes.
-- Colman
McCarthy
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There
is an urgent need to stop subsidizing the fossil fuel
industry, dramatically reduce wasted energy, and significantly
shift our power supplies from oil, coal, and natural
gas to wind, solar, geothermal, and other renewable
energy sources.
-- Bill
McKibben
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"Our
goal is to fundamentally change the way the world
uses energy...we want to change the entire energy
infrastructure of the world to zero carbon."
-- Elon
Musk
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The
use of solar energy has not been opened up because
the oil industry does not own the sun.
~ Ralph
Nader
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Federal
policy over the past century has largely failed to promote
an energy system based on safe, secure, economically affordable,
and environmentally benign energy sources. The tax code,
budget appropriations, and regulatory processes overwhelmingly
have been used to subsidize dependence on fossil fuels and
nuclear power. The result: increased sickness and premature
deaths, depleted family budgets, acid rain destruction of
lakes, forests, and crops, oil spill contamination, polluted
rivers and loss of aquatic species and the long-term peril
of climate change and radioactive waste dumps–not to mention
a dependency on external energy supplies.
~ Ralph
Nader
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"I
see this [biodiesel] as a way for the farmer to grow
fuel and food and put him back in business again"
-- Willie
Nelson
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We believe
that part of the answer lies in pricing energy on the basis
of its full costs to society. One reason we use energy so
lavishly today is that the price of energy does not include
all of the social costs of producing it. The costs incurred
in protecting the environment and the health and safety
of workers, for example, are part of the real costs of producing
energy—but they are not now all included in the price of
the product.
-- Richard Nixon
Alternative
energy is a future idea whose time is past. Renewable energy
is a future idea whose time has come.
-- Bill Penden
I
have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the
sun's energy.... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would
have had solar energy centuries ago.
~ Sir George Porter
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"If
we want energy security, then we have to reduce our
appetite for fossil fuels. There's no other way. Other
issues may crowd the headlines, but this is our fundamental
challenge. Big challenges require bold action and leadership.
To get the United States off fossil fuels in this uneasy
national climate of terrorism and conflict in the Persian
Gulf, we must treat the issue with the urgence and persistance
it deserves. The measure of our success will be the
condition on which we leave the world for the next generation.
~ Robert
Redford
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"If
nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance
industry insure them. Until these most expert judges
of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm
not willing to gamble with the health and safety of
my family."
-- Donna
Reed
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“It’s
very important that we expand our use of clean energy
and make a long-term commitment to it.
-- Julia
Roberts
“It’s
very important that we expand our use of clean energy
and make a long-term commitment to it. Biodiesel and
ethanol are better for the environment and for the
air we breathe.The use of biodiesel is a positive
step toward minimizing pollutive emissions and greenhouse
gases. By focusing on school buses, we can affect
the health and wellbeing of the people most susceptible
to that pollution – our children – today.”
-- Julia
Roberts
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We're
clearly coming to the end of the fossil fuel era. We
have the technology to shift to renewable energy, we
have the will of the people. The only thing that's keeping
us back is the fossil fuel industry's hold on our political
system. That's what we need to change.
-- Mark
Ruffalo
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"Climate
change is real, caused by human activity and already
devastating our nation and planet. The United States
must lead the world in combating climate change and
transforming our energy system away from fossil fuels
and toward energy efficiency and sustainability."
~ Sen.
Bernie Sanders
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Every
time you look up at the sky, every one of those points
of light is a reminder that fusion power is extractable
from hydrogen and other light elements, and it is an
everyday reality throughout the Milky Way Galaxy.
-- Carl
Sagan
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--It's
time we stopped turning up our noses at the nation's garbage
dumps and started appreciating them for what they really are
-- the municipal mines, forests, oil wells and energy sources
of the future!
-- Max Spendlove
It's
time we stopped turning up our noses at the nation's garbage
dumps and started appreciating them for what they really are
-- the municipal mines, forests, oil wells and energy sources
of the future!
-- Max Spendlove
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First,
there is the power of the Wind, constantly exerted over
the globe… Here is an almost incalculable power at our
disposal, yet how trifling the use we make of it.
-- Henry
David Thoreau (1834)
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The
US government knows that conventional oil is running out fast.
According to a report on oil shales and unconventional oil
supplies prepared by the US office of petroleum reserves last
year, "world oil reserves are being depleted three times as
fast as they are being discovered. Oil is being produced from
past discoveries, but the reserves are not being fully replaced.
Remaining oil reserves of individual oil companies must continue
to shrink. The disparity between increasing production and
declining discoveries can only have one outcome: a practical
supply limit will be reached and future supply to meet conventional
oil demand will not be available.
-- John Vidal
Here's
what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels
in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey. And like
so many addicts about to face cold turkey, our leaders are
now committing violent crimes to get what little is left of
what we're hooked on.
-- Kurt Vonnegut
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"The
choice before us is simple. Will we continue to subsidize
the dirty fossil fuels of the past, or will we transition
to 21st century clean, renewable energy."
~ Elizabeth
Warren
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"The
Age of Oil has really exhausted its usefulness, and
it has actually become a danger to our lives and our
ability to survive on the planet."
-- Dennis
Weaver
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…our
perception of the "energy crisis" is different from many.
We feel that Americans have had too much fuel available, that
less will be better. I see it as the "effects of too much
energy" crisis. With our bigger-is-better, disposable, nonrenewable
energy past, I wonder if, in squandering fuel, we have not
also subverted self-reliance, neighborly concern, the active
appreciation of balance and harmony. I think confronting this
legacy of too much, too soon would be the proper response
to the energy crisis.
-- Steven C. Wilson, Etheos Mountain Agriculture Institute
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"Energy
Policy will be and should be driven by environmental
policy in the future."
~ Timothy
Wirth
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