ALTERNATIVE ENERGY QUOTES III

quotations about alternative & renewable energy

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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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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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Unless the sun dies, winds stop, plants die and rivers stop running, there will always be green energy to be had. Some of these energy sources are completely free and we have them no matter what. Why not take advantage of them?

EDGAR CERVANTES

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The challenge for investors in solar has always been making money on this massive potential. The average person can probably name a solar company that has gone bankrupt before they can name one that's been a winner for investors. But that's changing. The solar industry is just ending what's known as the nascent or growth phase of a business cycle and entering a more mature growth phase of consolidation. This doesn't necessarily mean that companies will consolidate, but rather that the power in the industry will consolidate around a handful of power players. While the nascent phase was messy, with lots of bankruptcies and technology failures -- just as we saw with computers in the 1980s or the Internet in the 2000s -- the consolidation phase will bring slower growth along with more stability to those who beat out competitors.

ADAM GALAS, JASON HALL & TRAVIS HOIUM

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For providers, the fact that alternative energy can cut the tether to large energy corporations and empower the masses, all while helping the environment and providing local jobs and revenue, is tantalizing.

PAT BARCAS

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

JOSE IGNACIO ESCOBAR

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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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