"[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on……" — Stewart Brand
"[Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm."
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33 Quotes by Stewart Brand
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Once a new technology rolls over you, if you're not part of the steamroller, you're part of the road.
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The technology of synthetic biology is currently accelerating at four times the rate of Moore's Law. It's been doing that…
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When a fantasy turns you on, you're obligated to God and nature to start doing it right away.
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Information wants to be free.
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We have wished, we eco-freaks, for a disaster or for a social change to come and bomb us into Stone…
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Art flouts convention. Convention became convention because it works.
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A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.
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Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the…
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If all of your electricity in your lifetime came from nuclear [energy], the waste from that lifetime of electricity would…
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There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the…
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Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now,…
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You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
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