All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can make the k…

- Ted Nordhaus

Environmentalists needed to stop imagining that they were representing a thing called Nature or the Environment, separate from us (e.g. humans) in po…

- Ted Nordhaus

The levels of technology investment in the energy sciences pales compared to the kinds of investment we make in the computer and bio-sciences.

- Ted Nordhaus

It is worth noting that virtually every alternative energy source we have - solar, wind, nuclear, and battery and fuel cell technologies for storage …

- Ted Nordhaus

We know that things like energy independence, getting off oil, getting out of the Middle East, and creating jobs and economic development in the new …

- Ted Nordhaus

Making big investments to get off oil, making clean energy alternatives widely available and cheap, and creating millions of new jobs in clean energy…

- Ted Nordhaus

After a brief couple of years in the late '70s, public funding for clean energy technologies dried up and has been on the decline ever since.

- Ted Nordhaus

Energy is a sector of the economy that has been particularly resistant to innovation. This is precisely the problem. It is why we are still dependant…

- Ted Nordhaus

Skepticism about the potential to achieve the kinds of breakthroughs we need has been a self-fulfilling prophecy.

- Ted Nordhaus