The main thing that's missing in energy is an incentive to create things that are zero-CO2-emitting and that have the right scale and reliability characteristics.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.
Energy is necessary for economic growth, for a better quality of life, and for human progress.
Today, we're very dependent on cheap energy. We just take it for granted - all the things you have in the house, the way industry works.
The source of all the energy is the sun. The big challenge is, how do you use all of that energy? Solar power has to fascinate you. There have been strides to get the costs down, and if this will work, you have to get costs down so it is competitive with fossil fuels.
The question of energy is an important one. The big issue is how to get it, how not to destroy the environment, and how to survive as a species. It's a big deal.
Energy begets energy.
Every day we are paying more for energy than we should due to poor insulation, inefficient lights, appliances, and heating and cooling equipment - money we could save by investing in energy efficiency.
It is critical that we have a comprehensive energy plan to provide affordable and reliable supplies of energy so that our economy will not be dependent on foreign sources of energy.
Energy-saving technologies keep improving faster than they're applied, so efficiency is an ever larger and cheaper resource.
The more energy-efficient we become as a nation, the less we need to develop additional energy sources.