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  • 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.

    Running   Wind   Giving  
    "Eco-celebrity tries reality TV show". Interview with Sarah van Schagen, www.nbcnews.com. January 4, 2007.
  • 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.

    Two   Light   Korea  
  • 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.

    Country   Air   Quality  
    Interview with Alex Pasquariello, www.hcn.org. May 24, 2004.
  • 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.

    Two   Years   Next  
  • 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.

    Believe   Air   People  
    "Clamoring for Kyoto" by Rich Noyes, www.newsbusters.org. May 24, 2012.
  • 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.

    Running   Ideas   Waiting  
    "Elon Musk: Refining Gas Uses More Electricity Than Electric Cars". Interview with Matt Rosoff, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2011.
  • We reject techniques like torture regardless of whether they're effective or ineffective because they are barbaric and harmful on a broad scale. It's the same thing with cyber warfare. We should never be attacking hospitals. We should never be taking down power plants unless that is absolutely necessary to ensure our continued existence as a free people.

    Source: www.pbs.org
  • The first day at the power plant I found myself photographing some steam vents on the roof of the structure. And I remember consciously thinking that they were just like trees but they were metal.

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

    Funny   Years   Office  
    "Burlington Free Press" (Vermont), February 15, 1980.
  • While many technological measures can be taken to secure safety at nuclear power plants, such measures on their own cannot cover great risks.

    Taken   Safety   Risk  
  • 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.

  • 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.

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

    Years   Eight   Coal  
  • 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.

    Time   Pain   Acceptance  
  • t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

    Hydrogen   Energy   Peers  
    "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.
  • 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.

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

  • A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

    Science   Power   Years  
    "The Seattle Times" Newspaper, January 3, 1994.
  • Under my plan of a cap and trade system, electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket… Because I’m capping greenhouse gasses, coal power plants, natural gas…you name it…whatever the plants were, whatever the industry was, they would have to retro-fit their operations. That will cost money…they will pass that money on to the consumers.

    Names   Energy   Cost  
    "Obama: Energy Prices Will Skyrocket Under My Cap and Trade Plan". www.newsbusters.org. November 2, 2008.
  • The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.

    Nuclear   Indiana   Hills  
    "'Everything Worthy is Under Fire'". Interview with Thomas P. Healy, www.counterpunch.org. November 8, 2010.
  • We should have a debt that grows our productivity, we cant borrow to pay salaries. I can borrow to build 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.

    Fashion   Media   Looks  
  • 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?

    "Exclusive Interview With Eve Ensler, Recipient of the 2011 Isabelle Stevenson Tony Award". Interview with Marianne Schnall, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 13, 2011.
  • Camera-phones are like nuclear power plants: bad people will turn them into evil, good people will put them to good use.

    Phones   People   Evil  
    "Father of the Camera Phone". NPR Interview, January 06, 2007.
  • 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.

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

  • You shouldn't send an email from a computer that's associated with you if you don't want it to be tracked back to you. You don't want to hack the power plant from your house if you don't want them to follow the trail back and see your IP address.

    House   Addresses   Want  
    "Exclusive: Edward Snowden on Cyber Warfare". Interview with James Bamford and Tim De Chant, www.pbs.org. January 8, 2015.
  • 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.

    Thinking   Yield   Energy  
    "Elon Musk on rockets, sports cars, and solar power". Interview with Michael Kanellos, www.cnet.com. February 15, 2008.
  • 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.

    Smart   America   Air  
  • The trains carrying coal to power plants are death trains. Coal-fired power plants are factories of death.

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