“The foundation is being laid for the emergence of both wind and solar cells as cornerstones of the new energy economy. World wind generating capacity grew from 7,600 megawatts in 1997 to 9,600 in 1998, an expansion of 26 percent. At a national level, Germany led the way, adding 790 megawatts of capacity, followed by Spain with 380 megawatts, and the United States with 226 megawatts. In the past, U.S. wind generating capacity was concentrated in California, but in 1998, wind farms began generating electricity in Minnesota, Oregon, and Wyoming, broadening the new industry's geographical base.” WorldWayStatesPastEnergyLevelsUnitedUnited StatesEconomyWindGrewIndustryPercentCapacityFoundationCellsAlternativesCaliforniaGermanyFarmsExpansionElectricitySpainEmergenceCornerstonesMinnesotaOregonWyomingNew EnergyWind FarmsSolar Cells Author:Lester R. Brown
“Solar power is one of the most hopeful technologies but still produces about 0.01 percent of U.S. electricity. The U.S. allocates just $159 million for solar research per year - about what we spend in Iraq every nine hours.” YearsStillsEnergyHoursMillionsTechnologyProduceResearchPercentIraqNineAlternativesHopefulElectricitySolar Power Author:Nicholas D. Kristof
“We continue to go from crisis to crisis, whether it is electricity or whether it is gas prices. We need comprehensive solutions, not patchwork crisis management. We wouldn't be in this situation today if Senate Democrats weren't holding up the national energy plan that the president proposed back in May of 2001.” IfsNeedsMayTodayEnergyPresidentSituationPlansSolutionsManagementCrisisDemocratGasSenateElectricityComprehensiveGas PricesCrisis ManagementPatchwork Author:Scott McClellan
“Almost every way we make electricity today, except for the emerging renewables and nuclear, puts out CO2. And so, what we're going to have to do at a global scale, is create a new system. And so, we need energy miracles.” WayNeedsTodayEnergyMiracleNuclearScalesElectricityEmergingCo2 Author:Bill Gates
“An energy tax punishes senior citizens, it punishes rural Americans, if you use electricity it punishes you. This bill will increase your cost of living and may kill your job.” IfsMayUseJobsEnergyCitizensCostTaxesIncreaseBillsElectricitySeniorSenior CitizenCost Of Living Author:Newt Gingrich
“I, who had been in favour of nuclear energy for generating electricity ... I suddenly realised that anybody who has a nuclear reactor can extract the plutonium from the reactor and make nuclear weapons, so that a country which has a nuclear reactor can, at any moment that it wants to, become a nuclear weapons power. And I, right from the beginning, have been terribly worried by the existence of nuclear weapons and very much against their use.” WantHas BeensCountryMomentsUseEnergyExistenceWeaponsNuclearWorriedNuclear WeaponsElectricityFavourRealisedNuclear EnergyPlutoniumNuclear Reactors Author:Mark Oliphant
“The laws of thermodynamics may be regarded as particular cases of more general laws, applicable to all such states of matter as constitute Energy , or the capacity to perform work, which more general laws form the basis of the science of energetics, a science comprehending, as special branches, the theories of motion, heat, light , electricity , and all other physical phenomena.” MayMatterStatesLightFormLawEnergyCasesSpecialParticularTheoryCapacityBasesHeatBranchesPhenomenonElectricityThermodynamicsComprehending Book:A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine Source: A Manual of the Steam Engine and Other Prime Movers by William John Macquorn Rankine
“Canada, the United States and Mexico, we developed these energy reserves that we have in this North American region. And you can see a not only driving down the cost of electricity but a major manufacturing boom in this country. Couple that with tax policy, reduction, reducing the corporate tax rate, and that I think a renaissance in manufacturing like we've never seen in this country and really drive the economy.” ThinkingCountryStatesEnergyUnitedUnited StatesEconomyPolicyCoupleCostTaxesMajorsRateDrivingCorporateCanadaRegionsMexicoReservesElectricityReducingManufacturingRenaissanceReduction Author:Rick Perry
“Clean energy is about offering people the opportunity to do what's right for themselves and the people they love. It's about reducing the pollution that makes people sick. It's about helping the low-income families struggling to pay their gas and electricity bills.” PeopleHelpingOpportunityEnergyPayStruggleLowsSickBillsCleanIncomeGasOfferingPollutionElectricityReducingClean EnergyLow Income Author:Gloria Reuben
“Money and electricity are much alike. Both are stored energy. Living amidst electricity, using it constantly, you take its presence and its utility for granted. Treated with respect, it is constructive, tireless. Treated with disrespect, it is destructive, vicious. It will light your way, pull a twelve-car train from Washington to New York in a bit more than four hours, kill you or burn your house alike. Electricity is insulated, though, and children are not permitted to play with it.” WayChildrenPlayLightHouseEnergyBitsHoursMoneyFourCarNew YorkTrainTreatedGrantedDestructiveTwelveElectricityViciousUtilityConstructiveDisrespect Book:Father Struck It Rich Source: Father Struck It Rich
“To talk of atomic energy in terms of atomic bombs is like talking of electricity in terms of the electric chair.” WarEnergyPeaceTermTalkingBombsChairsElectricElectricityAtomic BombAtomic EnergyElectric Chair Author:Pyotr Kapitsa
“Historically, we have lived in a nation of energy dependence. Dependence on others for our heating and electricity, and for our fuel for transportation.” EnergyNationsFuelElectricityDependenceTransportationHeatingDependence On Others Author:Mike Pompeo
“Electricity is doing for the distribution of energy what the railroads have done for the distribution of materials.” DoneEnergyMaterialsElectricityDistributionRailroads Author:Charles Proteus Steinmetz