Thomas Edison on Solar
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy — sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
In conversation with Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone (1931)
[photo by helmet13 on Flickr | WikiQuote via Eriks Brolis]
Have you seen the peak oil documentary called A Crude Awakening? It’s a little disturbing but they mention an interesting fact that 20,000 times more energy hits the Earth from the Sun each day than all the fossil fuels burned that day.
actually i haven’t seen that documentary but i have hear the statistic before