The longer I live, the more I am certain that the great difference between the great and the insignificant, is energy – invincible determination–a purpose once fixed, and then death or victory.

Sir Thomas Bowell Buxton

We’ll run out of water before we run out of oil!

Peter Brabeck-Letmathe, Chairman of Nestle, the World’s largest food company

Realism over the critical issues of energy supply and use in the 21st century’s economies and societies has become a very scarce commodity.

Peter Odell, Author, 2004