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

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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.

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The history of energy use is a sequence of transitions to sources that are cheaper, cleaner, and more flexible.

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

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When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are very important.

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In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.

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Most innovation is not done by research institutes and national laboratories. It comes from manufacturing - from companies that want to extend their product reach, improve their costs, increase their returns. What's very important is in-house research.

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Innovation usually arises from somebody taking a product already in production and making it better: better glass, better aluminum, a better chip. Innovation always starts with a product.

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Mass adoption of renewable energies would thus necessitate a fundamental reshaping of modern energy infrastructures.

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I appreciate and love blue-green algae.

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Biography

Nationality: Czechoslovakian

Type: Scientist

Born: December 9th, 1943

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