Power Plants Quotes:

It's not as though we can keep burning coal in our power plants. Coal is a finite resource, too. We must find alternatives, and it's a better idea to find alternatives sooner then wait until we run out of coal, and in the meantime, put God knows how many trillions of tons of CO2 that used to be buried underground into the atmosphere.

- Elon Musk

source: "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.

topic: Running, Ideas, Waiting, Co2, Power Plants

Carbon negative power plants can provide energy while they overcome poverty and change economic values in the right direction.

- Graciela Chichilnisky

source: "Global Warming and the Future of Humanity: An Interview With Noam Chomsky and Graciela Chichilnisky". Interview with C.J. Polychroniou, truthout.org. September 17, 2016.

topic: Economic Value, Poverty, Overcoming, Power Plants

All the waste in a year from a nuclear power plant can be stored under a desk.

- Ronald Reagan

source: "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.

topic: Funny, Years, Office, Power Plants, Nuclear Waste

We pull out of the ground death, we burn death in our power plants, and then we act shocked when we get death in the form of oil spills and global warming.

- Van Jones

topic: Oil, Global Warming, Plant, Power Plants, Oil Spill

Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

- Philippe Kahn

source: "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.

topic: Phones, People, Evil, Power Plants, Nuclear Power

The most complex object in the known universe: brain, only uses 20 watts of power. It would require a nuclear power plant to energize a computer the size of a city block to mimic your brain, and your brain does it with just 20 watts. So if someone calls you a dim bulb, that's a compliment.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Block, Cities, Brain, Power Plants

So, there's quite a big keep-out zone, and when you factor the keep-out zone into account, the solar panels put on that area would typically generate more power than that nuclear power plant.

- Elon Musk

topic: Energy, Nuclear, Plant, Solar Energy, Solar Panels

It's obviously tricky to convert cellulose to a useful biofuel. I think actually the most efficient way to use cellulose is to burn it in a co-generation power plant. That will yield the most energy and that is something you can do today.

- Elon Musk

source: "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.

topic: Thinking, Yield, Energy, Biofuels, Power Plants

I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.

- Hayao Miyazaki

topic: Thinking, Nuclear, Plant, Power Plants, Nuclear Power

Terrorists do not actually need nuclear weapons. They have been conveniently supplied with 103 nuclear power plants scattered throughout the United States (438 of these deadly facilities exist throughout the world). A planned meltdown at one of these facilities would make the World Trade Center attacks seem like child's play. The massive concrete containers protecting the reactors are not strong enough to withstand the impact of a jumbo jet.

- Helen Caldicott

source: Helen Caldicott (2013). “The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex”, p.12, The New Press

topic: Strong, Children, War, Meltdowns, Power Plants

You cannot affirm the power plant and condemn the smokestack, or affirm the smoke and condemn the cough

- Wendell Berry

topic: Environment, Plant, Power Plants

To build a power plant and run lines to houses, to huts, to anything is a tremendous amount of work...how about...just giving them the service where they need it-on the roof of their hut.

- Ed Begley, Jr.

source: "Eco-celebrity tries reality TV show". Interview with Sarah van Schagen, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2007.

topic: Running, Giving, House, Power Plants

Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket.

- Barack Obama

topic: Electricity, Caps, Rate, Power Plants, Greenhouse Gases

Nearly all of our existing power sources are generators which use a heat cycle. This includes our coal, oil, and gas fired utilities, our automobiles, trucks, and trains, and even our nuclear fission utility power plants.

- Wilson Greatbatch

source: Wilson Greatbatch (2000). “The Making of the Pacemaker: Celebrating a Lifesaving Invention”

topic: Oil, Nuclear, Coal, Oil And Gas, Generator

Two [Massachusetts coal burning power plants] remain: Brayton Point in the South Coast region and Mt. Tom, just down the road. Within the next four years, both should shut down and Massachusetts should finally end all reliance on conventional coal generation.

- Deval Patrick

topic: Two, Years, Down And, Power Plants

Power plants break up the way you see the world; they can push you into the second attention; yet to continuously take them, weakens the subtle psychical body.

- Frederick Lenz

topic: Buddhism, Balance, Attention, Power Plants

Air pollution is not merely a nuisance and a threat to health. It is a reminder that our most celebrated technological achievements-the automobile, the jet plane, the power plant, industry in general, and indeed the modern city itself-are, in the environment, failures.

- Barry Commoner

topic: Air, Cities, Achievement, Jet Planes, Power Plants

Growth, growth, growth -- that's all we've known . . . World automobile production is doubling every 10 years; human population growth is like nothing that has happened in all of geologic history. The world will only tolerate so many doublings of anything -- whether it's power plants or grasshoppers.

- M. King Hubbert

topic: Years, Growth, Population, Power Plants, Grasshoppers

Though we still come first in the sphere of gas export, national production has diminished due to the increasing volumes of hydrogenation for the electric power industry and therefore there is a lower need for gas at thermal power plants.

- Vladimir Putin

source: Source: thesaker.is

topic: Electric Power, Needs, Firsts, Power Plants, Thermal

So it was flawed in that it didn't require California to have a first claim on the power plants. It deregulated part of the market, but not all of the market.

- Gray Davis

topic: California, Firsts, Flaws, Power Plants

Why? Because we're very well down this process as it is - flawed as it is - and we're counting on getting more power plants on line by the end of 2003 so we have a surplus of power.

- Gray Davis

topic: Lines, Flaws, Plant, Surplus, Power Plants

...with what we spent in Iraq we could build nuclear power plants and space solar power satellites and tell the Arabs to drink their oil.

- Jerry Pournelle

topic: Oil, Iraq, Space, Power Plants, Solar Power

And also, we are providing, you know, a nuclear power plant in the north, two light water systems, so some 4 or 5 billion dollars we are providing to meet with North Korean requests on the condition North Korea will not produce a nuclear weapon.

- Kim Dae-jung

topic: Light, Korea, Two, Power Plants, Nuclear Power

Today, about 40 percent of America's carbon pollution comes from our power plants. There are no federal limits to the amount those plants can pump into the air. None. We limit the amount of toxic chemicals like mercury, and sulfur, and arsenic in our air and water, but power plants can dump as much carbon pollution into our atmosphere as they want. It's not smart, it's not right, it's not safe, and I determined it needs to stop.

- Barack Obama

topic: Smart, America, Air, Arsenic, Sulfur

We do have serious energy needs for the country, we are aware that natural gas is especially in demand because of its air quality benefits: 90 percent of new power plants have been natural gas-powered.

- Gale Norton

source: Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.

topic: Country, Air, Quality, Power Plants, Air Quality

The problems in California have been that it's been very difficult to site and build new power plants.

- Kenneth Lay

topic: California, Problem, Plant, Power Plants

Unfortunately, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been especially aggressive in pursuing regulations that specifically target coal power plants. These regulations have already put hundreds of Pennsylvanians out of work and will continue to cause economic distress while yielding negligible benefits for our environment.

- Pat Toomey

source: Source: www.motherjones.com

topic: Agency, Environmental, Target, Epa, Environmental Protection

If we all used clotheslines, we could save 30 million tons of coal a year, or shut down 15 nuclear power plants. And you don't have to wait to start. Yours could be up by this afternoon. To be specific, buy 50 feet of clothesline and a $3 bag of clothespins and become a solar energy pioneer.

- Bill McKibben

topic: Years, Feet, Waiting, Solar Energy, Power Plants

A deposit insurance system is like a nuclear power plant. If you build it without safety precautions, you know it’s going to blow you off the face of the earth. And even if you do, you can’t be sure it won’t.

- L. William Seidman

topic: Blow, Safety, Nuclear, Power Plants

If you grow a garden you are going to shed some sweat, and you are going to spend some time bent over; you will experience some aches and pains. But it is in the willingness to accept this discomfort that we strike the most telling blow against the power plants and what they represent.

- Wendell Berry

topic: Pain, Acceptance, Blow, Power Plants, Aches And Pains

Even when nuclear power plants go horribly wrong, they do less damage to the planet and its people than coal-burning stations operating normally.

- George Monbiot

topic: People, Nuclear, Coal, Power Plants, Nuclear Power

People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills,and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.

- John Kenneth Galbraith

topic: Educational, Sea, People, Common Denominator, Power Plants

The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

- James Hansen

source: "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them" by James Hansen, www.theguardian.com. February 14, 2009.

topic: Energy, Coal, Environment, Power Plants

If nuclear power plants are safe, let the commerical insurance industry insure them. Until these most expert judges of risk are willing to gamble with their money, I'm not willing to gamble with the health and safety of my family.

- Donna Reed

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Safety, Judging, Risk, Power Plants, Health And Safety

Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.

- Barack Obama

topic: Years, Eight, Coal, Solar Panels, Power Plants

No one in the United States has become seriously ill or has died because of any kind of accident at a civilian nuclear power plant.

- Joe Barton

topic: United States, Nuclear, Kind, Power Plants, Nuclear Power

As a black person in America, I am twice as likely as a white person to live in an area where air pollution poses the greatest risk to my health. I am five times more likely to live within walking distance of a power plant or chemical facility - which I do.

- Majora Carter

source: "Greening the ghetto". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February 2006.

topic: Motivation, Distance, Inspiration, Power Plants, Air Pollution

Computers shouldn't be unusable. You don't need to know how to work a telephone switch to make a phone call, or how to use the Hoover Dam to take a shower, or how to work a nuclear-power plant to turn on the lights.

- Scott McNealy

topic: Phones, Light, Use, Hoover, Power Plants

We could never light another match, and if China continues to build one coal-fired power plant a week, we are doomed. China is going to have to have new technologies made available to it to stop this. They're not going to live in poverty.

- Jay Inslee

source: "Power Q&A: Rep. Jay Inslee". Interview with Dave Gilson, www.motherjones.com. May/June 2008.

topic: Technology, Light, Poverty, Power Plants

They [some countries] borrowed money to go acquire things, Indian power plants and Danish newspapers and British soccer teams. And they did it willy-nilly, and they themselves a story, that Icelandic history and culture and DNA leaves us very well-suited to being investment bankers.

- Michael Lewis

source: "Michael Lewis’ 'Boomerang': 'Money Thrown Out in Hope, Coming Back in Anger'". "PBS NewsHour" with Jeffrey Brown, www.pbs.org. October 21, 2011.

topic: Soccer, Country, Team, Danish, Power Plants

In many places around the world, all over the U.S. and Europe there are active nuclear power plants. And for many years during the Cold War the threat of nuclear war was a permanent fear. There's always the concern that human kind is biting off more than they can chew in harnessing nuclear power.

- Oren Peli

source: "‘Chernobyl Diaries’ & ‘Paranormal Activity’ Writer/Producer Oren Peli". Interview with Roth Cornet, screenrant.com. May 25, 2012.

topic: War, Years, Europe, Power Plants

You don't build a new power plant in the United States overnight. It takes years to build.

- John Abizaid

topic: Years, United States, Plant, Power Plants

We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build power plants.

- Babatunde Fashola

topic: Should Have, Pay, Salary, Power Plants, Screening

Mercury pollution from power plants is a national problem that requires a national response

- Tom Allen

topic: Mercury, Problem, Plant, Power Plants

President Bush insisted today that he was not caving in to big money contributors, big-time lobbyists, and overall industry pressure when he broke a campaign promise to regulate carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. But the air was thick today with accusations from people who believe that's exactly what happened.

- Dan Rather

topic: Believe, Air, People, Carbon Dioxide Emissions, Power Plants

With the terrible earthquake and resulting tsunami that have devastated Japan, the only good news is that anyone exposed to excess radiation from the nuclear power plants is now probably much less likely to get cancer.

- Ann Coulter

topic: Cancer, Japan, Earthquakes, Devastated, Tsunami

I think we have to get bolder. Why after Fukushima didn't we all go out and shut down all the nuclear power plants and stay there until it happened?

- Eve Ensler

source: "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.

topic: Thinking, Nuclear, Fukushima, Power Plants

We look at the Web as being our basic power plant, kind of like electricity, so the Web and communicating in this fashion is second nature to us now. It's not like we go brochure, television, mail. It's Web, and then everything else. It's social media first, and everything else.

- Ted Leonsis

topic: Fashion, Media, Looks, Brochures, Power Plants

I remembered seeing it and it was this metallic turbine and I thought it was beautiful. I had never been in a power plant before, but I felt, without being overly dramatic, compelled to make photographs of this for myself.

- John Sexton

topic: Power Plants, Turbines

There are consequences to our insatiable demands for energy and there are no easy answers for how to capture that energy safely. But even more pressing, since we are currently using nuclear power across the country and the globe, nuclear power plants must be regulated, and we need to be certain that our regulatory bodies are not compromised by their relationships with industry.

- Ivy Meeropol

topic: Country, Nuclear, Answers, Easy Answers, Power Plants