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.
In the 1960s, I personally lived the resounding impact of President Nasser's vision of constructing Aswan's High Dam as a 'national project' for controlling the Nile irrigation and the production of electricity.
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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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.
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.
Energy Quotes
When you talk in terms of electricity, renewable is very important. Hydro in Manitoba. Hydro in Sweden. Wind in Denmark. Of course, those are very important.
Fossil fuels powered the U.S. into the industrial age and replaced windmills and wood burning, which were inefficient, as the primary sources of electricity.
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.
The demand for electricity to have a strong, growing economy is too great to be simply offset by more conservation.
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.
Go Quotes
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.
If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity.
The air is dirty because of the electricity monopolists. They have powerful money lobbyists.
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.
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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I was reading Plato's 'The Republic' at age 18, and I can't account fully the electricity that had for me.
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.'
The electricity tariff in Punjab is highest in north India, and it should be decreased.
If India moves towards 100 percent LED lighting, we will reduce almost 79 million tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This will also reduce the electricity bills of people.
Very often, state utilities do not buy electricity even if they need it, as every unit purchased increases their losses.
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Electricity can transform people's lives, not just economically but also socially.
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