ALTERNATIVE ENERGY QUOTES III

quotations about alternative & renewable energy

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Encouraging investment and usage of renewable energy in most cases has been deemed beneficial from a societal viewpoint, improving quality of life and minimizing the environmental impact of power generation. The problem can be that some of these societal benefits can become subverted in the process by poor implementation or poor oversight.

PETER BANNER

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Renewable energy is growing rapidly, and is triggering far-reaching social and institutional changes in how energy is used and managed in the electric grid, in buildings and in transportation. Two types of policies will determine how quickly the United States shifts from fossil fuels to renewable-based energy systems: first, measures that support energy efficiency and renewable energy, and second, measures that reduce support for and reliance on fossil fuels.

JENNIE C. STEPHENS

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Not only can we do a transition to truly sustainable systems -- financially, economically, socially and environmentally sustainable -- we are in the midst of it. There is no one global trend in that direction, but there are many places, municipalities, provinces, whole countries, regions that are transitioning away from fossil fuels toward renewable ways of producing energy, and smarter ways of consuming energy. So it is absolutely doable.

ALEXANDER OCHS

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The phrase 'alternative energy' is often deployed as a euphemism for options that don't seem to provide enough power to be worth the trouble. Yet almost all the big energy sources we use were once the alternative to what was being used before. There are many energy options in the works today that promise to power much more of our world tomorrow than what we often call 'alternatives.' These potentially huge solutions rarely receive the same attention.

KEN BRAUN

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Fossil fuels are powerful and profitable, but they are also wasteful and harmful. As we move into a new era it's important to start thinking of energy that will push us forward, as opposed to just moving us around and powering the present world. Green energy is the way of the future.

EDGAR CERVANTES

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The transition from coal, oil, and gas to wind, solar, and geothermal energy is well under way. In the old economy, energy was produced by burning something -- oil, coal, or natural gas -- leading to the carbon emissions that have come to define our economy. The new energy economy harnesses the energy in wind, the energy coming from the sun, and heat from within the earth itself.

LESTER R. BROWN

Tags: oil, solar power

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Alternative energy is no longer alternative. It's the most commercial now.

JOSE IGNACIO ESCOBAR

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Fifteen years ago, when I joined the early ranks of clean energy entrepreneurs, we were nearly dead in the water on climate. Oil was $15 per barrel, Al Gore's groundbreaking movie An Inconvenient Truth hadn't come out and a solar panel was something that powered a calculator.

ANDREW BEEBE

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To be sure, reaching the goal of 100 percent renewable and truly clean electricity within 10 years will require us to overcome many obstacles. At present, for example, we do not have a unified national grid that is sufficiently advanced to link the areas where the sun shines and the wind blows to the cities in the East and the West that need the electricity. Our national electric grid is critical infrastructure, as vital to the health and security of our economy as our highways and telecommunication networks. Today, our grids are antiquated, fragile, and vulnerable to cascading failure. Power outages and defects in the current grid system cost US businesses more than $120 billion dollars a year. It has to be upgraded anyway.

AL GORE

Tags: Al Gore

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