Best Turbines Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“We are in the process of finding out what filling billions of acres with huge wind turbines does to the global environment.”

Energy Process Change Environment Wind Huge Climate Billions Filling Acres Global Out Warming Finding Turbines Does Alternate Renewable Renewables

Author:Steven Magee

“The lesson of Lahaina: Do not live near to wind turbines.”

Wind Lesson Windy Maui Lahaina Green Energy Turbines Wind Turbines Hurricane Dora Do Not Live Near

Author:Steven Magee

“Putting solar photovoltaics into cloudy cities is like putting wind turbines in places where there is little wind!”

Cities Wind Solar Little Places Cloudy Turbines Photovoltaics Putting

Author:Steven Magee

“Wind turbines and residential communities do not belong together.”

Together Wind Illness Sickness Not Belong Communities Turbines Syndrome Residential

Author:Steven Magee

“And they are lovely, the turbines, better than power lines, particularly when the sky is blue. Sometimes I do stare at them. The blades look like ballerina’s legs, but all calves and no feet, like ballerina’s legs but with the feet chopped off at the ankle, like a German fairy tale.”

Dolls Turbines Wind Power Resemblances

Book:The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

Source: The Town of Whispering Dolls: Stories

“I find those wind turbines around Lake George to be utterly offensive. I think they're just a blight on the landscape.”

Thinking Wind Landscape Lakes Offensive Blight Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Joe Hockey

“Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.”

Ifs Men Way Made Energy Accepting Security Wind Theory Climate Climate Change Rotten Emissions Co2 Turbines Energy Security Wind Turbines Co2 Emissions

Author:Roger Helmer

“We must not let ourselves be swept off our feet in horror at the danger of nuclear power. Nuclear power is not infinitely dangerous. It's just dangerous, much as coal mines, petrol repositories, fossil-fuel burning and wind turbines are dangerous.”

Feet Dangerous Danger Mines Wind Horror Nuclear Burning Fuel Coal Fossils Fossil Fuel Nuclear Power Petrol Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:David J. C. MacKay

“We seem to forget that everything that is good for the environment is a job. Solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Houses don't retrofit themselves and put in their own new boilers and furnaces and better-fitting windows and doors. Advanced biofuel crops don't plant themselves. Community gardens don't tend themselves. Farmers' markets don't run themselves. Every single thing that is good for the environment is actually a job, a contract, or an entrepreneurial opportunity.”

Source: Rebuild the Dream

“Conventional turbines only work up to 200 feet, but capturing a small fraction of the global wind energy at higher altitudes could be sufficient to supply the current energy needs of the globe.”

Needs Energy Feet Wind Higher Currents Sufficient Conventional Globes Fractions Turbines Wind Energy

Author:Saul Griffith

“I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.”

Beautiful Artist Felt Seeing Plant Photographer Photograph Remembered Dramatic Compelled Power Plants Metallic Turbines

Author:John Sexton

“I do not rush into constructive work. When I get an idea, I start right away to build it up in my mind. I change the structure, I make improvements, I experiment, I run the device in my mind. It is absolutely the same to me whether I operate my turbine in thought or test it actually in my shop. It makes no difference, the results are the same. In this way, you see, I can rapidly develop and perfect an invention, without touching anything.”

Way Mind I Can Ideas Running Differences Perfect Results Tests Structure Improvement Experiments Invention Shops Devices Touching Constructive Turbines

Author:Nikola Tesla

“Is it a spiral of water in the tragic gleam of a revolver, an egg, a glistening arc or the floodgate of reason, a keen ear attuned to a mineral hiss, or a turbine of algebraic formulas? (On Man Ray's first photograms, 1921.)”

Men Firsts Reason Water Ears Tragic Eggs Formulas Rays Arcs Minerals Spirals Gleam Revolver Turbines

Author:Tristan Tzara

“The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.”

Purpose Three Christ Feet Wind Height Tall Idols Three Times Statues Imposing Redeemer Eco Rio Turbines Wind Turbines Rio De Janeiro

Author:Ezra Levant

“Clearly, there are many places where diesel is king or gas-turbine is king, or IC engines will win, but there are many places in the world where, as we've seen, they just won't do the job. The modern version of the Stirling engine has some very, very attractive characteristics, and we're trying to optimize it for some of those applications.”

World Trying Jobs Winning Modern Kings Versions Attractive Characteristics Gas Application Engines Places In The World Diesel Turbines

Author:Dean Kamen

“People forget: solar panels don't put themselves up. Wind turbines don't manufacture themselves. Businesses don't retrofit themselves to waste less energy and water, nor do homes weatherize themselves.”

People Home Energy Water Forget Wind Waste Solar Panels Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Van Jones

“I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.”

Believe Energy I Believe Fantasy Wind Keys Scales Alternatives Giants Farms Modest Deluded Godzilla Alternative Energy Turbines Wind Farms

Author:James Howard Kunstler

“Granny Weatherwax was often angry. She considered it one of her strong points. Genuine anger was one of the world's greatest creative forces. But you had to learn how to control it. That didn't mean you let it trickle away. it meant you dammed it, carefully, let it develop a working head, let it drown whole valleys of the mind and then, just when the whole structure was about to collapse, opened a tiny pipeline at the base and let the iron-hard stream of wrath power the turbines of revenge.”

World Mind Mean Hard Whole Strong Force Creative Angry Structure Revenge Tiny Genuine Streams Iron Valleys Collapse Wrath Pipeline Granny Turbines

Author:Terry Pratchett

“In case you haven't noticed, they're moving a lot faster. I don't know about the laws of physics on your planet, but where I come from an object moving at subclass speed can't catch up to one running at starclass. But if you know something about turbines, thrusters and engines, quantum or classical physics that I've somehow missed, then please enlighten me. - Caillen Dagan to Desideria Denarii”

Ifs Knows Running Moving Law Cases Havens Objects Planets Please Speed Physics Faster Engines Quantum Enlightening Laws Of Physics Turbines

Author:Sherrilyn Kenyon

“And then the turbines generate electricity that goes into the whole town." "You mean they aren't powered by giant hamsters on wheels? I was misinformed.”

Mean Whole Towns Giants Wheels Electricity Hamsters Turbines

Author:Michael Grant

“Did you ever feel, as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren't using - you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?”

Knows World Giving Feels Fall Waiting Water Chance Brave Extras Waiting For You Brave New World Brave New World Freedom Turbines Give It A Chance

Book:Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

Source: Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books

“Opinions are to the vast apparatus of social existence what oil is to machines: one does not go up to a turbine and pour machine oil over it; one applies a little to hidden spindles and joints that one has to know.”

Knows Littles Doe Social Existence Opinion Machines Oil Over It Joints Turbines

Book:One-Way Street

Source: One-Way Street

“When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and operate the device in my mind. It is absolutely immaterial to me whether I run my turbine in my thought or test it in my shop. I even note if it is out of balance.”

Ifs Mind Ideas Running Imagination Building Balance Tests Notes Improvement Shops Devices Construction My Thoughts My Imagination Turbines

Book:My Inventions: And Other Writings

Source: My Inventions: And Other Writings

“Replacing half of the U.S. ground-transport fuels with hydrogen from wind power by 2050, for example, might require 1,400 gigawatts of advanced wind turbines or more... replacing those fuels with electricity might require less than 400 GW.”

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Author:Joseph J. Romm

“You can power the entire U.S. vehicle fleet with 73,000 to 145,000 five-megawatt wind turbines. That would take between one and three square kilometers of footprint on the ground.”

Three Five Wind Squares Vehicle Footprint Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Mark Z. Jacobson

“If being original means having to throw paint in front of a jet turbine to hit a canvas 50 ft away then lets not be original.”

Ifs Mean Fronts Originals Paint Canvas Jet Turbines Being Original

Author:Shepard Fairey

“The mountains and moors, the wild uplands, are to be staked out like vampires in the sun, their chests pierced with rows of five-hundred-foot wind turbines and associated access roads, masts, pylons, and wires.”

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Author:Paul Kingsnorth

“Franchement, quand je survole certains pays européens (les éoliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill me with envy.)”

Country Pay Wind Envy European Countries Donne Turbines

Author:Nicolas Sarkozy

“The current anger at the march of turbines and pylons across the hills of Britain is not from nimbys. Government money has lubricated most backyard owners to support wind power. It comes from those who appreciate the beauty of the countryside and who question the industrial spoliation of miles of open landscape for a pitiful net gain to climate change.”

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Author:Simon Jenkins

“Hopelessly uneconomic on any substantial scale, since it requires a conventional power back-up for when the wind stops blowing, forests of wind turbines are rightly regarded in most countries as an environmental monstrosity.”

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Author:Nigel Lawson

“Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape.”

Wind Landscape Intrusion Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:Tim Yeo

“I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked.”

Ifs Wind Turbines Wind Turbines

Author:James Lovelock

“I used to think Cape Wind was a great idea. That was when Ted Kennedy was alive and railing about how he might spill his Chivas if he had to keep maneuvering the Mya around all those noisy seagull-murdering wind turbines. Anything Ted Kennedy was against, I was for.”

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Author:Howie Carr

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