Turbines Quotes

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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… — Walter Benjamin
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… — Nikola Tesla
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… — 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… — 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… — 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… — Paul Kingsnorth
Franchement, quand je survole certains pays europÃ©ens (les Ã©oliennes) ne donne pas envie. (Frankly, when I fly over some European countries, their turbines don't fill… — 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… — 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… — Nigel Lawson
Onshore wind turbines are visually a very considerable intrusion on any landscape. — Tim Yeo
I wouldn't be against them (large wind turbines) if they actually worked. — 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… — Howie Carr
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… — Dean Kamen
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… — 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… — 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. — 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?… — Aldous Huxley
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… — Saul Griffith
We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines. — Ban Ki-moon
To power the country by building 186,000 fifty-story wind turbines - and running 19,000 miles of new transmission lines - just seems impractical and preposterous… — Lamar Alexander

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