SOLAR POWER QUOTES
quotations about solar power
Every 24 hours, enough sunlight touches the Earth to provide the energy for the entire planet for 24 years.
MARTHA MAEDA
How to Solar Power Your Home: Everything You Need to Know Explained Simply
On the Earth's surface, solar power is also handicapped because it is intermittent. A 1000-megawatt coal, gas, or nuclear power station needs only a few acres (or hectares) of land and operates day and night. A 1000-megawatt solar power station occupies square miles (or square kilometers) and works only in the daytime. Even so, the dream of producing electric power from sunlight on a massive scale won't die. Solar cells have been used to power satellites and space probes for decades. Someday, they may help to power a moon base. Unlike the situation on Earth, sunlight shines constantly in space, and the idea of deploying enormous solar cell arrays in near-Earth orbit and sending the electric power they generate to Earth using microwave transmitters was suggested more than 40 years ago by the Czech-American scientist and engineer Peter Glaser.
FRANKLIN HADLEY COCKS
Energy Demand and Climate Change: Issues and Resolutions
The whole idea of the solar project is to do something useful and replace dirty energy with clean energy.
NICK KELLY
"Sauk County stands to benefit from solar power", Baraboo News Republic, July 28, 2017
Clearly, we need more incentives to quickly increase the use of wind and solar power; they will cut costs, increase our energy independence and our national security and reduce the consequences of global warming.
HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON
speech at Cleantech Venture Forum VIII, October 25, 2005
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.
RALPH NADER
Loose Talk
It's not that utilities oppose solar power, per se--many are investing in large-scale solar projects, but many utilities are opposed to customers generating their own electricity and selling it to the grid. Think of APS like a grocer who doesn't want home gardeners selling vegetables in the town square--except this grocer enjoys a government-sanctioned monopoly.
JEREMY DEATON
"This utility is being investigated by the FBI for trying to block rooftop solar", Think Progress, August 1, 2017
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.
THOMAS EDISON
attributed, Uncommon Friends: Life with Thomas Edison, Henry Ford, Harvey Firestone, Alexis Carrel & Charles Lindbergh
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 coal and permanent renewable energy sources, like solar power.
JIMMY CARTER
televised speech, April 18, 1977
The use of solar energy offers huge potential for natural resource and climate protection, and for the expansion of renewable energies on the road to a future-oriented energy supply.
MARGARETA WOLF
speech, June 20, 2004
Solar power is a big idea, whose time has come. And, like the space program, solar is an idea that can shape our nation in significant and positive ways. In the coming months, in the coming years, we will face critical decisions on how to address climate change, reduce our dependence on foreign energy, and boost our economic competitiveness. The beauty of solar power is that it offers an elegant solution to all three of these challenges. Imagine what it would be like if every time that it rained it rained oil, big black drops falling from the sky. Don't you think that we would find some way to run around with a big bucket and collect all of that energy that was falling from the sky? I know this sounds like an absurd picture, but the reality is that what we have outside today is something very comparable to that. Literally, we have useful energy pouring out of the sky, and nowhere does it rain sunshine with greater intensity and consistency than in the American southwest.
GABRIELLE GIFFORDS
opening statement at meeting of Subcommittee on Energy and Environment, March 17, 2008
Scientists will eventually stop flailing around with solar power and focus their efforts on harnessing the only truly unlimited source of energy on the planet: stupidity. I predict that in the future, scientists will learn how to convert stupidity into clean fuel.
SCOTT ADAMS
"An Interview with Scott Adams", Moneywatch, October 4, 2008
There has been a systematic repression of solar energy. It seems pretty funny to me that the government, if it is completely neutral--why wouldn't they pursue this far safer alternative of solar energy with the same intent that they pursue nuclear energy? Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet--nobody taxes the sun yet.
BONNIE RAITT
"Bonnie Raitt's No-Nuke Blues", The Harvard Crimson, May 19, 1978
The sun--that power plant in the sky--bathes Earth in ample energy to fulfill all the world's power needs many times over. It doesn't give off carbon dioxide emissions. It won't run out. And it's free.
SUSANNAH LOCKE
"How does solar power work?", Scientific American, October 20, 2008
We need to drive the cost of solar energy down to where it's competitive for bulk power generation.
JIM DIPESO
speech, September 13, 2003
As the technology for solar cells gets better and better, this form of clean, renewable energy will find more applications that take up less space and produce more electricity, to meet the energy needs of our homes, schools and businesses.
SAMUEL BODMAN
speech, July 14, 2005
Solar power, wind power, the way forward is to collaborate with nature -- it's the only way we are going to get to the other end of the 21st century.
BJORK
interview with Rod Stanley, "Bjork on Biophilia", Dazed & Confused, August 2011
Another advantage of solar energy is its safety. An enormous amount of time, money, and energy is put into keeping fossil fuel plants and nuclear plants safe. An oil spill can devastate the surrounding environment. Coal mine accidents often cause death or injury. The security companies and police SWAT teams that protect nuclear power plants must be alert to guard against terrorism. By contrast, solar energy is safe from terrorist attacks. There is nothing in a solar plant that could devastate the environment. A breakdown in a solar energy plant might mean a broken mirror. A breakdown in a nuclear plant could mean a major disaster.
JIM OLLHOFF
Solar Power
It's encouraging to know that you're doing your fair share to mitigate global warming. It's comforting to know your future is more secure. And let's face it: Solar power is cool. When you put panels on your roof, people notice, and they'll be nicer to you. Well, maybe ...
RIK DEGUNTHER
Solar Power Your Home For Dummies
You're living in the twilight zone.
What's wrong with solar power? (No profit)
Money money money
DAVE DAVIES
"Danger Zone"
All energy is ultimately derived for the sun and harvesting it directly through solar power seems to be the best way to transition to renewable energy.
PETER RIVE
"SolarCity Unveils World's Most Efficient Panel", Time, October 2, 2015