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“You have some utilities, like in Mozambique or Madagascar, that see it as a threat, and are trying to claw it down. But the realization is, this [solar transition] is happening anyway, whether you like it or not. If you fight people, they'll just go clandestine and install it without letting you know." - Joel Nana, South African energy analyst

“Our job is to flood the world as fast as possible with electrons from the sun and wind, confident that the very availability of clean, cheap power in bulk will drive the rest of the process. In the US alone, as The Economist pointed out, we have a terawatt of new solar capacity just waiting to be connected to the grid if regulators can get out of the way.”

“Over time, I think, that switch [to solar and wind power] will make it easier to steer the machine in smarter directions, but that's not the main job at the moment. Emergency-room doctors don't waste a lot of time worrying about their patients' poor lifestyle choices—they do what they must to save their lives, perhaps with the hope that given a second chance their patients will choose more wisely.”

“Relying on energy sources that are abundant instead of scarce—the sun and the wind each day produce thousands of times as much energy as we could ever use—could even reconfigure our ideas of competition and conquest. Unlike oil and gas, sun and wind can't be hoarded.“