"With climate change, my generation runs the risk of giving to subsequent generations a problem they won't be able to solve."

"Right now, your utility bill is almost as bad as your taxes. I keep imagining saying 20 years from now, 'I can't believe we ever lived in a time where we had no transparency into how we used our energy.'"

"It would be a tragedy if we were to go from buying oil from unstable and perhaps undependable nations to buying technology from unstable and possibly undependable nations..."

"Unless there was good business to be done in solving the problem of climate change, then climate change wouldn't be solved."

"There simply is no truth to the idea that we have to choose between a clean environment, healthy air and a thriving economy."

"Imagine women giving birth at night with an oil lamp, and then giving birth with electric light."

Sastry says the energy density of batteries must double "if we're to have a serious impact on the market with electric vehicles." That translates to twice the range, or "doubling the size of your electric gas tank."