Wednesday, September 12, 2012

Solar Quotes

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. 
Ralph Nader 

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants. 
Barack Obama 

Even though I love solar and love wind, like most people do, I like the renewable sources, they alone are not going to get America energy independent. 
Mitt Romney 

It's really kind of cool to have solar panels on your roof. 
Bill Gates 

It's time for the human race to enter the solar system. 
Dan Quayle 

If China is helping its domestic industries charge an artificially low price for solar panels and other environmental goods, then China is violating international trade rules that it agreed to when it became a member of the World Trade Organization. 
Ron Wyden 

Try everything. Do everything. Nuclear. Biomass. Coal. Solar. You name it. I support them all. 
T. Boone Pickens 



It's important to understand that oil and renewables do different things. Wind and solar are for power generation, so they don't replace oil. About 70% of all oil produced is used for transportation fuel. Renewables are good projects, but they don't get us off of foreign oil. 
T. Boone Pickens 

There's life all over this universe, but the only life in the solar system is on earth, and in the whole universe we are the only men. 
George Wald 

When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. 
Kalpana Chawla 

I've been thinking a lot about space. It was one of those slow-motion realisations how little we are, how far we are from everything else in our solar system. This idea of distance started kind of haunting me. How do you go forth and accomplish things but not end up leaving everything you started out with in the dust? 
Regina Spektor 

The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. 
Walter Lang 

It might be arrogant to think that we're the only living creations in all of the solar systems that there are. Space is so vast. 
Jeri Ryan 

In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country. 
Michael Burgess 

We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid. 
Larry Niven 

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. 
John Hickenlooper 

All of this got me thinking about the history of the westward expansion, and got me to wondering how the exploration of the Solar System would be changed if there were an indigenous presence out there. 
Sarah Zettel 

Now, of course, the great thing about the solar system as a frontier is that there are no Indians, so you can have all the glory of the myth of the American westward expansion without any of the guilt. 
Sarah Zettel 

Then, I realized that there is an indigenous presence in the Solar System. It's us. So, then, I got to wondering what would happen if a more technologically advanced society moved next door to us, the way we moved next door to the American Indians. 
Sarah Zettel 

Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop. 
J. D. Hayworth


New technologies such as solar systems or hybrid cars aren't created overnight. By extending these tax credits we are giving this industry time to grow, branch out and succeed. 
J. D. Hayworth 


Producing fuel cells and solar panels requires high tech facilities and produces high paying jobs. The industry is booming in Arizona. The state already has about 100 firms in the solar industry and has grown 20% since 2003. 
J. D. Hayworth 

You know, there was a time, just before I started to study physical science, when astronomers thought that systems such as we have here in the solar system required a rare triple collision of stars. 
Murray Gell-Mann 

It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system. 
Johannes Stark 

Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels. 
Philippe Perrin 

You have to work with the auto industry, the oil companies, you have to work to develop renewable fuel, whether it's solar or different kinds of fuel or whatever. 
Ted Danson 

There is no doubt that we should take solar radiation into account. We have seen ground temperatures rising since 1975, and it is important to know to what extent that has been caused by the sun or by carbon dioxide. 
Bjorn Lomborg 

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. 
Blythe Danner 

I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago. 
George Porter 

I've been told that I have a lot of energy. The secret is that I use renewable resources. Some days I'm solar powered. Some days I'm wind powered. And some people in this room might think I'm hybrid gas-powered. You'll just have to guess which it is today. 
Bill Richardson 

Most of the dogmatic religions have exhibited a perverse talent for taking the wrong side on the most important concepts in the material universe, from the structure of the solar system to the origin of man. 
George G. Simpson 

We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass.There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve. 
Alexi Giannoulias 

It would be great some day to have astronauts in a rover on Mars. But just about anyone except an oil company executive would say its more important to have 50 million solar powered vehicles in the United States. 
Brad Sherman 

For example, a breakthrough in better batteries could supplant hydrogen. Better solar cells could replace or win out in this race to the fuel of the future. Those, I see, as the three big competitors: hydrogen, solar cells and then better batteries. 
Bob Inglis 

Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit short. And yet, despite the discomfort, the danger, I love it here. I love coming back for these imaginary vacations. The sights are amazing. 
Greg Bear 

Likewise, with solar, especially here in California, we're discovering that the 80 solar farm schemes that are going forward want to basically bulldoze 1,000 sq. mi. of southern California desert. Well, as an environmentalist, we would rather that didn't happen. 
Stewart Brand 

There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium. 
Bob Brown 

Man must at all costs overcome the Earth's gravity and have, in reserve, the space at least of the Solar System. 
Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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