Solar Power Quotes

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Carl Sagan
“We are star stuff harvesting sunlight.”
Carl Sagan

George  Porter
“I have no doubt that we will be successful in harnessing the sun's energy. ... If sunbeams were weapons of war, we would have had solar energy centuries ago.”
George Porter

Steven Magee
“There is a lot of willful incompetence in solar industry that is in the process of coming to light.”
Steven Magee

“Kenya Power recently shocked the nation when they announced that they were making losses. We know it's a strategy to hike prices. Since there's no salvation for a loss-making monopoly, my country people, invest in solar & other forms of energy.”
DON SANTO

Steven Magee
“It would appear that the blue sky is actually produced by the solar wind and solar radiation exciting air molecules to emit light, just like a neon lamp!”
Steven Magee, Light Forensics

Steven Magee
“It really should be a criminal offense for an electrician to mount a breaker box on a bedroom wall. Unfortunately, I see the solar industry mounting inverters on bedroom walls also!”
Steven Magee

Danny Kennedy
“Most plentiful, accessible, and least expensive power source in the world.”
Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

Varun Sivaram
“In 2015, Tesla founder and CEO Elon Musk quipped, “We have this handy fusion reactor in the sky called the sun. You don’t have to do anything. It just works. It shows up every day and produces ridiculous amounts of power.”
Varun Sivaram, Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet

“If the goal is to save energy, the power company would save a lot more energy providing you with a clothesline.”
Paul Wheaton, Building a Better World in Your Backyard - Instead of Being Angry at Bad Guys

Steven Magee
“When I was commissioning a brand new solar photovoltaic utility site, I came across metal tubes installed into the fuseholders that were marked up as 100 amp fuses on the diagram. Needless to say, it had already gone on fire.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“One of the biggest lies that is currently being told in the USA workplace is on the legally required OSHA poster: All workers have the right to a safe workplace.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“The current generation of solar and wind power systems generally introduce instability into the electrical utility grid system with their intermittent power generation characteristics and electronically generated harmonic energy.”
Steven Magee, Light Forensics

Steven Magee
“If you are looking for a job that may make you sick, I can recommend working at a high powered solar photovoltaic (PV) utility power plant.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Utility electricity is a known hazardous biological toxin and the toxicity of it is increasing as it progresses into harmonic electronic power generation (Wind & Solar) and wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation smart/AMR/AMI meters.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“The era of biologically toxic wireless radio frequency (RF) radiation and harmonic electronic power generation from wind and solar systems with their adverse brain modifying effects that can bring on irritable and aggressive behaviors has made it a bad time to be a police officer.”
Steven Magee

Danny Kennedy
“But recent advances of ingenuity based on solar power’s brilliance have unleashed the creativity of entrepreneurs and capital. These advances are supported by serious social movements—committed activists who seek to break the corporate power of Big Oil and Big Coal and to reduce pollution and corruption.”
Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

Abhijit Naskar
“If you actually want to tackle climate crisis, then instead of yelling at the politicians like a hysterical Karen and obstructing traffic, educate the masses on clean energy and get involved in startups working on affordable clean energy solutions.”
Abhijit Naskar, Şehit Sevda Society: Even in Death I Shall Live

Steven Magee
“After leaving the largest solar power plant in the USA, I went on to become a world leading expert in Radio Wave Sickness.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“DC arc faults are so dangerous in solar power systems that all new systems are required to have arc fault detectors.”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Many owners of solar power systems have learned the hard way about how dangerous a DC arc fault can be!”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“There really needs to be a public inquiry as to how the President of the USA ended up in the middle of a field of known dangerous solar power equipment, telling the world’s media how wonderful it was!”
Steven Magee

Steven Magee
“Most electrical engineers are trained on AC electricity. They generally have no idea how dangerous a high powered DC solar photovoltaic system can be!”
Steven Magee

Abhijit Naskar
“If we can't light up the forgotten corners, what's the point in discovering photoelectric effect!”
Abhijit Naskar, Himalayan Sonneteer: 100 Sonnets of Unsubmission

Ethan Chatagnier
“An infinitesimal fraction of the sun’s energy is responsible for all the abundance of our planet. A good thing we can’t see the torrent of waste, the enormity of what’s lost. Imagine pouring a jug of milk down the drain. The droplets of leftover milk in the sink? That’s what we live off.”
Ethan Chatagnier, Singer Distance

“Let me call it cosmic solidarity: solar politics, which breaks the promethean vicious circle of worship and extractivism, begins from the recognition that the sun is neither a master, nor a slave. The sun is a comrade.”
Oxana Timofeeva, Solar Politics