"With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today."

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Source : "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

Donald Sadoway

#Wind Quotes #Way Quotes #Giants Quotes

“This is a unique deposit not just in terms of reserves, but also in terms of extraction techniques. Therefore there're grounds to talk about [applying] the Product Sharing Agreement.”
“I remember one winter, when I was about five or six, I spent three days with another boy, tracking a bobcat that had been sighted in another county fifty miles away, but which I was sure had come into our neighborhood.”
“Unbreakable Productions (my company) provides fun, uplifting and inspirational content (and products soon!) on a regular basis to help viewers discover their inner strength, utilize the power of inner-inertia, and remain Unbreakable through life's challenges.”
“I grew up mostly in Schenectady, N.Y. From an early age, building and creating things was a real passion for me.”

Source : "iRobot: From R2-D2 to practical robots". fortune.com. August 14, 2014.
“Donâ€™t you do that.â€ She turned away from the mirror, toward him. â€œDonâ€™t you dare make a joke. It took a great deal of courage to say what I did. And you donâ€™t have to speak a word in return, but I will insist you be man enough to take it. I wonâ€™t have you making light of my feelings, or making light of yourselfâ€”as if youâ€™re not worthy of them. Because you are worthy, Colin. Youâ€™re a generous, good-hearted person, and you deserve to be loved. Deeply, truly, well, and often”
“Scientists have one thing in common with children: curiosity. To be a good scientist you must have kept this trait of childhood, and perhaps it is not easy to retain just one trait. A scientist has to be curious like a child; perhaps one can understand that there are other childish features he hasn't grown out of.”

Source : Otto Robert Frisch (1980). “What Little I Remember”, p.86, Cambridge University Press
“Agriculture is the most destructive industry that we have. More than coal mining and other extractive industries.”

Source : "Could cows and sheep halt climate change and tackle rural poverty?" by Judith D Schwartz, www.theguardian.com. July 31, 2013.
“The man who acquires the ability to take full possession of his own mind may take possession of anything else to which he is justly entitled.”

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