"Variable but forecastable renewables (wind and solar cells) are very reliable when integrated with each other, existing supplies and demand. For example, three German states were more than 30 percent wind-powered in 2007-and more than 100 percent in some months. Mostly renewable power generally needs less backup than utilities already bought to combat big coal and nuclear plants' intermittence."

-- Amory Lovins

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“Avoid getting wrapped up in things - especially status purchases - as these often come at the expense of people and relationships.”
“To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.”
“People think Paris [Hilton] is a ditzy blond, and I don't want to blow it for her, but she plays it really well. She knows exactly what she's doing. She's actually a pretty smart person. She's very cognizant of what she's doing, and she kind of plays that role, so people think she's some airhead but she's really not.”

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“Watermelons and Zen students grow pretty much the same way. Long periods of sitting till they ripen and grow all juicy inside, but when you knock them on the head to see if they're ready sounds like nothing's going on.”
“I prefer to think of myself as a musician who is still learning and trying to do something every time out.”
“Rattlesnakes would be a lot more dangerous if they didn't have the rattle.”
“If our body is a perfect expression of our thought about body, and if our thought about body is that itâ€™s condition has everything to do with inner image and nothing to do with time, then we donâ€™t have to be impatient for being too young or frightened of being too old.”
“Even in the darkness, his smile threw shadows.”

Source : Hugh Howey (2013). “Wool”, p.90, Simon and Schuster

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