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Electricity Quotes
From candlelight memories to clean power.
Several voices recall growing up in homes lit only by fireplaces and wood stoves, offering a striking contrast to others who advocate for large-scale renewable power like solar and wind. This mix of nostalgia and forward-thinking policy makes the topic richer than expected, echoing themes found in Energy quotes.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very focused on large-scale deployments of renewable power and how we're going to get this done. Imagine our military bases covered with solar thermal collectors that could generate steam and electricity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
My grandmother's house - she ran it just like her grandmother and her great-grandmother. They didn't have electricity. They had wood stoves that never got cold.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up in rural Oregon in a log house with bark left on inside and out. We had no electricity, a massive stone fireplace, a grand piano, and tons of books.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Electricity is of two kinds, positive and negative. The difference is, I presume, that one comes a little more expensive, but is more durable; the other is a cheaper thing, but the moths get into it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The LED light bulb is more than ten times the efficiency of regular incandescent lighting, so it can save the world hundreds of billions of dollars in electricity costs.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
The aliens coming and wiping our electricity and having technical power over us... we don't know what's out there. It something that seems so fictional, but it's something that's possible.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
- Data
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fibre optic is becoming like electricity. If you look at how electricity spread around the globe 100 years ago, that's what's happening now.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I got on stage, I felt this bolt of electricity hit me, and it was this shock of, 'This is exactly what I'm supposed to do with my life.'
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- Nov 07, 2020
The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.
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- Nov 07, 2020