Wilson Greatbatch famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Failure is a learning experience, and the guy who has never failed has never done anything.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Guy #Done #Learning Experience
There is more energy locked up in sources around the solar system than we could ever reasonably expect to need, the problem would be transporting them back to earth and using them in a cost efficient manner.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Would Be #Needs #Cost
This is no job for a UN committee. It needs the same kind of unwavering dedication and the kinds of people that got us the first nuclear submarine and the first man on the moon.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Jobs #Moon #Men
Our present nuclear fusion reactors are classified by the methods used to support the nuclear fusion reaction, which takes place at a temperature much hotter than the surface of the Sun.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Support #Nuclear #Sun
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

#Oil #Nuclear #Coal
There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Moon #Fuel #Earth
History has repeatedly shown that when a new method or material becomes available, new uses for it arise.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Use #Method #Arise
Nuclear fusion of light elements like hydrogen or helium would permit approaching the speed of light. It seems very attractive to refuel your space ships where the fuel is.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Light #Space #Nuclear
We need the kind of leadership exemplified by President Kennedy to just do it! But we must do it as good stewards, aggressively exerting control over the moon. We can best do this by going there.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Moon #President #Needs
It is clear that the nation that assumes stewardship of the Moon now will inherit stewardship of the galaxy in the coming millennium. I think the USA is ready for that challenge!
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Moon #Thinking #Usa
France generates a significant part of its energy requirements from fission reactors and these have achieved a perfect safety record. We build ours all differently.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Perfect #Safety #Records
The 20th Century was the century of Aviation and the century of Globalization. The next century will be the century of Space.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Space #Next #Aviation
When you buy a gallon of gas, over 60 percent of the energy you pay for goes out the radiator in the form of waste heat? That's why you have a radiator in your car in the first place.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Car #Pay #Waste
Rocket scientists agree that we have about reached the limit of our ability to travel in space using chemical rockets. To achieve anything near the speed of light we will need a new energy source and a new propellant. Nuclear fission is not an option.
-- Wilson Greatbatch

#Light #Space #Needs

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