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Vaclav Smil Quotes

Czechoslovakian - Scientist | December 9, 1943 -

We're a society that demands electricity 24/7. This is very difficult with sun and wind.

Sun Wind Society Electricity Demands

Meat eaters don't like me because I call for moderation, and vegetarians don't like me because I say there's nothing wrong with eating meat. It's part of our evolutionary heritage! Meat has helped to make us what we are. Meat helps to make our big brains.

Me Eating Heritage Wrong Nothing

I am probably one of the last people on the planet without a cell phone.

I Am People Cell Phone Phone Without

Energy use is merely a means to many rewarding ends: economic security, education, health.

Education Health Energy Security Use

Killing animals and eating meat have been significant components of human evolution that had a synergistic relationship with other key attributes that have made us human, with larger brains, smaller guts, bipedalism, and language.

Relationship Eating Key Language Us

A brilliant mind having a eureka moment could not create an Intel microprocessor containing a billion transistors any more than one person could dream up a Boeing 787 from scratch.

Moment Mind Dream Create Person Up

America tends to assume Silicon Valley-style innovators can drive quick and transformative changes, but even Silicon Valley's would-be masters of the universe have discovered that energy transitions are subject to time spans and technical constraints that defy their reach.

Time Drive Energy Universe America

Meat is undoubtedly an environmentally expensive food.

Food Meat Expensive Environmentally

Some countries that grow lots of pork, like Denmark and the Netherlands, are either eliminating antibiotics or reducing them. We have to do that. Otherwise we'll create such antibiotic resistance, it will be just terrible.

Grow Create Will Resistance Pork

You cannot increase the efficiency of photosynthesis. We improve the performance of farms by irrigating them and fertilizing them to provide all these nutrients. But we cannot keep on doubling the yield every two years. Moore's law doesn't apply to plants.

Law Plants Performance Efficiency

Economic and technical imperatives - not any preconceived directives - will keep propelling the process of energy transition.

Energy Process Transition Will Keep

Renewable energy is very significant.

Energy Renewable Energy Significant

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