Lackner Quotes

#1. But truth is stubborn.

Our nature, our secret hearts can only hide for so long.

Susan Henderson

#2. Fossil fuels will run out not because of limited resources but because of the environmental impact. If I can solve that impact, I have basically increased the resource base by a vast amount.

Klaus Lackner

#3. Every individual who is not creative has a negative, narrow, exclusive taste and succeeds in depriving creative being of its energy and life.

Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

#4. The idea that somewhere in the desert far away you have a CO2 absorber that's removing the CO2 from the air is an attractive one. It's a costly process that many will say is too expensive, but so are fuel cells in cars. It's a matter of political will to move this forward.

Klaus Lackner

#5. Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.

Klaus Lackner

#6. If we want to stabilize the carbon dioxide in the atmosphere at some level - it really doesn't matter which level - you end up having to stop emissions virtually completely.

Klaus Lackner

#7. It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

Ira Glass

#8. We need to figure out a way to create more energy on a gigawatt scale and not create so much CO2 in the process.

Klaus Lackner

#9. I don't think you have a choice but to pull CO2 back that has already made it out, or is about to make it out, because we are not overnight shutting down all the coal plants.

Klaus Lackner

#10. We can see quite plainly that our present civilization is built on the exploitation of animals, just as past civilisations were built on the exploitation of slaves.

Donald Watson

#11. Technologies simmer along before they are feasible. That simmer can be short or long, but then they get traction. And from there to being huge is a couple of decades.

Klaus Lackner

#12. Even in the future, beware of the big, bad wolf ...

Marissa Meyer

#13. It is important that carbon storage is carefully regulated, that the process is transparent to the public, and that there is a clear accounting of what happened to the CO2. This is particularly true of underground storage, where there is always a small chance that pressurized CO2 could escape.

Klaus Lackner

#14. To imply something," Jesse said, "you have to know something. I'm just trying to learn.

Robert B. Parker

#15. There's an overemphasis on conservation and other idyllic energy sources that can be harmful in that it hampers new technology and innovation.

Klaus Lackner

#16. Inner silence is for our race a difficult achievement. There is a chattering part of the mind which continues, until it is corrected, to chatter on even in the holiest places.

C.S. Lewis

#17. I believe that it is impossible to stop people from using the fossil fuels, so we need to develop technologies which allow us to use them without creating environmental havoc on the planet.

Klaus Lackner

#18. Just because you shot Jesse James, don't make you Jesse James.

Jonathan Banks

#19. There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

Elizabeth McCracken

#20. In a well-monitored storage site, it is always possible to release CO2 in a controlled manner in the unlikely event that it threatens to escape. Such a release is certainly no worse than ignoring the emission in the first place.

Klaus Lackner

#21. My personal view is the true long-term storage is mineral carbonates, which is some form of accelerated weathering.

Klaus Lackner

#22. The fact that companies are getting into building power plants that collect their own CO2 on-site shows there's some leadership in that industry. Some industries have seen the writing on the wall: that carbon will have to be managed.

Klaus Lackner

#23. If carbon came out of the ground, it has to go back into the ground.

Klaus Lackner

#24. Don't aim for success if you want it; just do what you love and believe in, and it will come naturally.

David Frost