Ernest Moniz Quotes

United States, Politician
December 22, 1944

Ernest Jeffrey Moniz, GCIH is an American nuclear physicist and former United States Secretary of Energy, serving under U.S. President Barack Obama from May 2013 to January 2017. In June 2017, Moniz became co-chairman and chief executive officer of the Nuclear Threat Initiative, a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization working to prevent catastrophic attacks with weapons of mass destruction and disruption—nuclear, biological, radiological and cyber.

We have to understand the ubiquity of energy in everything we do. Energy is core to our economy and it brings with it environmental challenges, and it's core to our security challenges.

Ernest Moniz
The clock is ticking as nature attempts to absorb the increased greenhouse gas emissions.

Ernest Moniz

Electricity generation emits more carbon dioxide in the United States than does transportation or industry, and nuclear power is the largest source of carbon-free electricity in the country.

Ernest Moniz
A 1.5 litres/100km 3 mpg increase in the auto and light truck fleet is worth 158,968.35 cubic metres 41,994,994.53 US gallons of oil a day.

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- Truck
- Increase
- Auto