Christopher Flavin Quotes

• The real potential of electricity lies not in providing social amenities but in stimulating long-term economic development

  Christopher Flavin

  Real, Lying, Long

  Christopher Flavin (1986). “Electricity for a developing world: new directions”, Worldwatch Inst

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• Sometimes electricity provides unexpected benefits. In a remote village in China's Fujian province in which young men have traditionally had a hard time finding wives, the arrival of electricity has attracted more brides

  Christopher Flavin

  Hard Times, Men, Wife

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• Urgency and vision are the twin pillars on which humanity's hope now hangs.

  Christopher Flavin

  Humanity, Vision, Climate

  Christopher Flavin, Amanda Chiu, Lisa Mastny (2008). “Low-carbon Energy: A Roadmap”, p.36, Worldwatch Institute

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• Construir un mundo en el que satisfagamos nuestras propias necesidades sin negar a las generaciones futuras una sociedad sana no es imposible, como afirman algunos. La cuestión es a qué dedican las sociedades sus esfuerzos creativos.

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  Future, Effort, Creative

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• Entretanto, los biocombustibles renovables se están abriendo paso en el mercado de los combustibles para el transporte y están empezando a tener un impacto mensurable en la demanda de combustibles derivados del petróleo, contribuyendo a un descenso del consumo de petróleo en Estados Unidos en particular a partir de 2006... Los 93.000 millones de litros de biocombustibles producidos en todo el mundo en 2009 desplazaron el equivalente estimado de 68.000 millones de litros de gasolina, lo que equivale aproximadamente al 5% de la producción mundial de gasolina.

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  Oil, Impact, Fuel

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• The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.

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  Years, Wind, Land

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• Improved energy productivity and renewable energy are both available in abundance—and new policies and technologies are rapidly making them more economically competitive with fossil fuels. In combination, these energy options represent the most robust alternative to the current energy system, capable of providing the diverse array of energy services that a modern economy requires. Given the urgency of the climate problem, that is indeed convenient.

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  Technology, Alternatives, Fuel

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• The challenge now is to renovate the baroque structure that the Kyoto Plan has become—or else scrap it and get ready to start all over.

  Christopher Flavin

  Kyoto, Challenges, Structure

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• The bottom of the oil barrel is now visible.

  Christopher Flavin

  Oil, Energy, Alternatives

  Christopher Flavin (1985). “World Oil: Coping With the Dangers of Success”, Worldwatch Inst

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• La industria solar china, líder mundial, ya suministra agua caliente a 35 millones de edificios, y el uso pionero de la recogida de agua de lluvia en la India proporciona agua limpia a decenas de miles de hogares.

  Christopher Flavin

  Home, Water, India

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• The 1,230 gigawatts (GW) of renewable power generating capacity in place at the end of 2009 now constitutes just over 25 percent of total generating capacity worldwide. This is over three times nuclear generating capacity and roughly 38 percent of the capacity of fossil fuel-burning power plants worldwide.

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  Burning, Fuel, Fossils

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• Within a few decades...the United States might get 30% of its electricity from sunshine.

  Christopher Flavin

  Sunshine, Wind, Energy

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