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“I think the future for solar energy is bright.”

Thinking Energy Solar Energy

Author:Ken Salazar

“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy - sun, wind and tide. ... I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

“I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”

“This curious faith is predicated on the notion that we will soon develop unlimited new sources of energy: domestic oil fields, shale oil, gasified coal, nuclear power, solar energy, and so on. This is fantastical because the basic cause of the energy crisis is not scarcity: it is moral ignorance and weakness of character. We don't know how to use energy or what to use it for. And we cannot restrain ourselves. Our time is characterized as much by the abuse and waste of human energy as it is by the abuse and waste of fossil fuel energy.”

Source: The Unsettling of America: Culture & Agriculture

“Because we are now running out of gas and oil, we must prepare quickly for a third change, to strict conservation and to the use of ... permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.”

“Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.”

Children Two Mother Energy Sweet Involved Mass Garden My Time Conservation Being A Mother Renewable Energy Recycling Peas Solar Energy Sweet Peas

Author:Blythe Danner

“I urge individuals around the world to stand up, and ask local leaders, if they haven't already, to pledge to purchase cleaner cars, build green facilities, and buy green power like wind or solar energy. Our actions may determine if we become a casualty in the war for a habitable planet for generations to come.”

“What do oil company executives, vampires and NASA bureaucrats all have in common? They fear solar energy.”

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Author:Michio Kaku

“God is not going to send us a bill for solar energy, but the gas industry will.”

Energy Industry Bills Gas Solar Energy

Author:Joy Baluch

“Is the warming unprecedented? Probably not. There is abundant historical and proxy evidence for both hotter and cooler periods in human history. Is it our fault? Again, maybe. The correlation of increasing warmth with increasing carbon dioxide concentrations is particularly weak; that with solar energy and with ocean movements is much stronger.”

“We are proposing buildings that, like trees, are net energy exporters, produce more energy than they consume, accrue and store solar energy, and purify their own waste, water and release it slowly in a purer form.”

Form Energy Water Tree Produce Building Waste Climate Stores Release Solar Energy

Author:William McDonough

“The radiations that pour upon the earth cause the biosphere to take on properties unknown to lifeless planetary surfaces, and thus transform the face of the earth. Activated by radiation, the matter of the biosphere collects and redistributes solar energy, and converts it ultimately into free energy capable of doing work on earth.”

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Author:Vladimir Vernadsky

“A large-scale wind, water and solar energy system can reliably supply the world’s needs, significantly benefiting climate, air quality, water quality, ecology and energy security ... [T]he obstacles are primarily political, not technical.”

World Needs Political Energy Water Quality Air Security Wind Climate Obstacles Scales Ecology Large Scale Solar Energy Air Quality Energy Security Water Quality

Author:Mark Z. Jacobson

“Richard Meier told me, 'Young man, solar energy has nothing to do with architecture.'”

Men Young Energy Architecture Young Man Solar Energy

Author:William McDonough

“If an aircraft is able to fly day and night without fuel, propelled only by solar energy, let no one claim that it is impossible to do the same thing for motor vehicles, heating and air-conditioning systems or computers, etc. This project voices our conviction that a pioneering spirit with political vision can together change society and and reduce society's dependence on fossil energies.”

“The sunlight ... that strikes Earth’s land surface in two hours is equivalent to total human energy use in a year. While much of that sunlight becomes heat, solar energy is also responsible for the energy embodied in wind, hydro, wave, and biomass, each with the potential to be harnessed for human use. Only a small portion of that enormous daily, renewable flux of energy will ever be needed by humanity.”

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Author:Christopher Flavin

“We only have to capture 1/10,000th of the solar energy landing on earth to completely satisfy all our energy needs.”

Needs Earth Energy Environmental Capture Landing Solar Energy

Author:Ray Kurzweil

“If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.”

Ifs Years Used Energy Waiting Millions Feet Plant Nuclear Bags Afternoon Coal Pioneers Nuclear Power Power Plants Solar Energy Clotheslines

Author:Bill McKibben

“There are three reasons, . . . apart from scientific considerations, mankind needs to travel in space. The first . . . is garbage disposal; we need to transfer industrial processes into space so that the earth may remain a green and pleasant place for our grandchildren to live in. The second . . . to escape material impoverishment: the resources of this planet are finite, and we shall not forego forever the abundance of solar energy and minerals and living space that are spread out all around us. The third . . . our spiritual need for an open frontier.”

“I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn't pose a serious environmental issue.”

Way Use Energy Issues Serious Assuming Environmental Nuclear Efficient Tied Solar Energy Environmental Issues Nuclear Energy

Author:John Hickenlooper