Wind Farms Quotes

• I will do anything that is basically covered by the law to reduce Berkshire's tax rate. For example, on wind energy, we get a tax credit if we build a lot of wind farms. That's the only reason to build them. They don't make sense without the tax credit.

  Warren Buffett

  Law, Energy, Example

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• Anyone who thinks that wind factories are environmentally friendly should Google "Cefn Croes Photo Gallery", to see 100 chilling pictures showing how many miles of unspoiled Welsh countryside were disfigured to create the largest industrial site in Britain: all to "save" annually less than a quarter of the CO₂ emissions from a single jumbo jet.

  Christopher Booker

  Thinking, Google, Friendly

  "Christopher Booker's notebook". www.telegraph.co.uk. January 22, 2006.

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• The disaster in the gulf shows: relying on dangerous, dirty fuels can at times impose incalculable costs. I have never heard of a wind farm collapsing and causing a massive wind-slick. I have never heard of a solar farm collapsing and leaving behind a catastrophic sun-spill.

  Van Jones

  Dirty, Leaving, Cost

  Fuente: rooseveltinstitute.org

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• Here's the thing, who cares what you have to look at, I'm a big advocate of not obscuring vistas, but even if you build the biggest wind farm, can it run anything more than a domestic washer and dryer and a computer, for the year? I'm sorry guys, the answer, you're going to be shocked to know: it ain't much more than that.

  Greg Graffin

  Running, Sorry, Years

  Fuente: brightestyoungthings.com

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• I believe we are deluded about alternative energy. The key is, whatever we do, we're going to have to do on a very modest scale. It's all about scale. We're not going to build giant wind farms with Godzilla-sized turbines all over the place. That's a fantasy.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Believe, Wind, Keys

  Entrevista con Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• It is fundamentally crazy to build wind farms out at sea. But it works!

  Tulsi Tanti

  Crazy, Sea, Wind

  Fuente: www.spiegel.de

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• Roma no se construyó en un día, y tampoco sustituiremos los combustibles fósiles por energías limpias basándonos en los acontecimientos de una sola semana. Pero lo importante es recordar que, una vez que se producen, las victorias de la energía limpia son irreversibles. Nadie derribará parques eólicos porque sienta nostalgia del fracking en nuestras cuencas hidrográficas. Y nadie derribará sus paneles solares porque eche de menos el mercurio en el atún o los inhaladores para el asma de sus hijos. Porque una vez que dejemos atrás los combustibles fósiles, nunca volveremos atrás.

  Michael Brune

  Kids, Rome, Missing

  "The Road Ahead (And Some Bumps Along the Way)" por Michael Brune, www.huffingtonpost.com. 21 de noviembre de 2013.

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• [Wind energy] takes a very large footprint on the land, five to 10 times what you'd use for nuclear, and typically to get one gigawatt of electricity is on the order of 250 square miles of wind farm.

  Marca Stewart

  Motivation, Inspiration, Squares

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• Like environmentalists, politicians generally privilege flora and fauna over folks. (NIMBYs excepted. Senator Edward Kennedy is a not-in-my-backyard environmentalist: he opposes wind farms in Nantucket Sound, offshore from his Hyannis Port compound.)

  Ilana Mercer

  Sound, Backyards, Nantucket

  "In Defense Of The Fence". www.wnd.com. April 04, 2008.

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• Our point of view is, lets not be so elitist that we can't honor good, hard, dignified, ennobling work: people working with their hands, building things, putting up solar panels, weatherizing homes, working on organic agriculture, building wind farms. We don't have robots in society, so somebody has to do that work. Lets make sure that the people who can use that work get a chance to do it. I see that as a first step toward bigger and better things.

  Van Jones

  Empleo, Trabajo, Hogar

  "The Green Options". May 29, 2007.

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• Se están sentando las bases para la aparición tanto de la energía eólica como de las células solares como piedras angulares de la nueva economía energética. La capacidad mundial de generación eólica pasó de 7.600 megavatios en 1997 a 9.600 en 1998, lo que supone una expansión del 26%. En el ámbito nacional, Alemania se situó a la cabeza, con 790 megavatios, seguida de España, con 380 megavatios, y Estados Unidos, con 226 megavatios. En el pasado, la capacidad de generación eólica de Estados Unidos se concentraba en California, pero en 1998 los parques eólicos empezaron a generar electricidad en Minnesota, Oregón y Wyoming, ampliando la base geográfica de la nueva industria.

  Lester R. Brown

  Pasado, Oregón, California

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