Elon Musk Quotes About Environment

Quotes about: Environment

• Let's think beyond the normal stuff and have an environment where that sort of thinking is encouraged and rewarded and where it's okay to fail as well. Because when you try new things, you try this idea, that idea... well a large number of them are not gonna work, and that has to be okay. If every time somebody comes up with an idea it has to be successful, you're not gonna get people coming up with ideas.

  Elon Musk

  Inspirational, Successful, Thinking

• Even if producing CO2 was good for the environment, given that we're going to run out of hydrocarbons, we need to find some sustainable means of operating.

  Elon Musk

  Running, Mean, Needs

  "The mind behind Tesla, SpaceX, Solarcity". TED conference, www.ted.com. February 2013.

• My background educationally is physics and economics, and I grew up in sort of an engineering environment - my father is an electromechanical engineer. And so there were lots of engineery things around me.

  Elon Musk

  Father, Engineering, Physics

  "Elon Musk’s Mission to Mars". Interview with Chris Anderson, www.wired.com. October 21, 2012.

• The reality is gas prices should be much more expensive then they are because we're not incorporating the true damage to the environment and the hidden costs of mining oil and transporting it to the U.S. Whenever you have an unpriced externality, you have a bit of a market failure, to the degree that eternality remains unpriced.

  Elon Musk

  Reality, Oil, Uranium Mining

  "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

• Well, my motivation behind Tesla is really to do as much good as possible for the environment and the electric-vehicle revolution. I think there is still a lot of work to do and if we were to sell to a big company, I'm not sure it would progress at the same pace.

  Elon Musk

  Motivation, Thinking, Electric Vehicles

  "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

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