Thermal Quotes:

All I know about thermal pollution is that if we continue our present rate of growth in electrical energy consumption it will simply take, by the year 2000, all our freshwater streams to cool the generators and reactors.

- David R. Brower

topic: Years, Growth, Energy, Generator, Electrical Energy

I did some products for the Apple II, most notably the first small low cost thermal printer, the Silent Type.

- Andy Hertzfeld

topic: Apples, Cost, Firsts, Printer, Thermal

Life from nonlife, like wine from water, has long been considered a miracle wrought by gods or God. Now it is seen to be the near-inevitable consequence of our thermal and chemical circumstances.

- Ursula Goodenough

source: "The Sacred Depths of Nature". Book by Ursula Goodenough, 1998.

topic: Wine, Water, Long, Thermal

I talk about reducing our dependence on foreign oil. If we're buying electricity from a solar-thermal plant in Tijuana, I'm not sure we should say that's evil. If we are buying wind power from Alberta, I don't have a huge objection to that.

- Jay Inslee

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

topic: Wind, Oil, Evil, Wind Power, Foreign Oil

There should be intensive research of all forms of clean energy - sun power, wind power, water power including wave power. In some places thermal energy is available. I stayed on a ranch which, with solar panels and two windmills, provided its own energy.

- Peace Pilgrim

source: Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.154, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

topic: Wind, Two, Water, Water Power, Solar Panels

The unthinkable is that we're distorting this atmospheric balance. We're shifting the chemical balance so that we have more poisons in the atmosphere - ozones and acid rain on ground level - while we're also changing the thermal climate of the earth through the greenhouse effect and - get this - simultaneously causing destruction of our primary filter of ultraviolet light. It's incredible. Talk about the national-debt crisis - we're piling up debts in the atmosphere, and the piper will want to be paid.

- Michael Oppenheimer

topic: Rain, Ozone, Light, Debt Crisis, Pipers

There's 20 companies that I have investments in - some batteries, some solar-thermal, one big nuclear thing. We need hundreds and hundreds of companies like that, so that in a 20-year time frame we really are starting to change the energy infrastructure.

- Bill Gates

topic: Thermal

This horrible decade where all of us men tried to be individual rebels... by wearing the exact same flaming skull on a bedazzled Ed Hardy thermal. I have three of them, I'm not laughing at you I'm laughing with you.

- Christopher Titus

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

topic: Men, Skulls, Laughing, Thermal

The eagle had two natural enemies: storms and serpents. He embraced the storm, waiting on the rock for the right thermal current and then using that to carry him higher. While other birds were taking cover, the eagle was soaring. An eagle would never fight against the storms of life.

- Karen Kingsbury

topic: Fighting, Rocks, Eagles, Storms Of Life, Thermal

When we give up dieting, we take back something we were often too young to know we had given away: our own voice. Our ability to make decisions about what to eat and when. Our belief in ourselves. Our right to decide what goes into our mouths. Unlike the diets that appear monthly in magazines or the thermal pants that sweat off pounds, unlike a lover or a friend or a car, your body is reliable. It doesn't go away, get lost, stolen. If you will listen, it will speak.

- Geneen Roth

topic: Giving Up, Sweat, Voice, Thermal

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

Who ... is not familiar with Maxwell's memoirs on his dynamical theory of gases? ... from one side enter the equations of state; from the other side, the equations of motion in a central field. Ever higher soars the chaos of formulae. Suddenly we hear, as from kettle drums, the four beats 'put n=5.' The evil spirit v vanishes; and ... that which had seemed insuperable has been overcome as if by a stroke of magic ... One result after another follows in quick succession till at last ... we arrive at the conditions for thermal equilibrium together with expressions for the transport coefficients.

- Ludwig Boltzmann

topic: Expression, Evil, Magic, Kettles, Maxwell

So we live in an accelerating possibility curve.  Perhaps we can't control it, but we can learn to ride it like a surfer on a wave or a bird on a thermal, to use its power to take us where we want to go - to live in uncertainty and yet act with confidence.

- Dewitt Jones

topic: Curves, Bird, Use, Surfer, Thermal

I was wishing I'd bought some of that Camp Half Blood orange thermal underwear..." ?!?!

- Rick Riordan

topic: Blood, Orange, Wish, Thermal

I look at Woody Allen's prolific career of 30 or 40 films, and I'm watching the clock. I'd love to work at a clip of a film a year. We don't get the benefit of the doubt, particularly black women. We're presumed incompetent, whereas a white male is assumed competent until proven otherwise. They just think the guy in the ball hat and the T-shirt over the thermal has got it, whether he's got it or not. For buzzy first films by a white male, the trajectory is a 90-degree angle. For us, it's a 30-degree angle.

- Dee Rees

topic: Thinking, Years, Careers, Thermal, Proven

Of course, uh, the universe is gradually slowing down and, uh, will eventually collapse inwardly on itself, according to the laws of entropy when all it's thermal and mechanical functions fail, thus rendering all human endeavors ultimately pointless. Just to put the gig in some sort of context.

- Bill Bailey

topic: Funny, Humor, Law, Thermal, Of Context

For electric power generation, we are very optimistic about solar-thermal technology, and we’re intrigued by the potential of enhanced geothermal energy to replace coal-based power generation. Traditional carbon capture and sequestration-based coal power generation is somewhat unlikely to be competitive.

- Vinod Khosla

source: "Power Q&A: Vinod Khosla". Interview with Elizabeth Gettelman, www.motherjones.com. April 21, 2008.

topic: Optimistic, Technology, Electric Power, Geothermal, Geothermal Energy

We define thermodynamics ... as the investigation of the dynamical and thermal properties of bodies, deduced entirely from the first and second law of thermodynamics, without speculation as to the molecular constitution.

- James Clerk Maxwell

topic: Law, Body, Firsts, Thermodynamics, Thermal

Economics was like psychology, a pseudoscience trying to hide that fact with intense theoretical hyperelaboration. And gross domestic product was one of those unfortunate measurement concepts, like inches or the British thermal unit, that ought to have been retired long before.

- Kim Stanley Robinson

source: Kim Stanley Robinson (2003). “Blue Mars”, p.105, Spectra

topic: Long, Psychology, Trying, Pseudoscience, Gross Domestic Product