Quotes About Energy

Many of the so-called American characteristics,' a chronicler of the [WW2 University of Minnesota starvation] experiment wrote, '—abounding energy, generosity, optimism—become intelligible as the expected behavior response of a well-fed people.

No matter how much meat they now had available to them, it was of limited nutritional value without a source of fat.

Beside the Columbia River in Washington State, construction had commenced on reactors that used two hundred tons of uranium moderated by twelve hundred tons of graphite. Working with their Canadian ally, the Americans were building a massive heavy water plant at a hydropower station in Trail, British Columbia. At the Los Alamos Ranch School in New Mexico, a small city of physicists was working to build a functioning fission bomb.

Forget solar energy—if you could harness denial, it would power the world for generations.

black holes generate an amazing amount of light. The problem is, their gravity is so great, the light can't escape—it just gets pulled in along with everything else.

Putting me at the forefront of his thoughts drew out what little energy he had left, just as when I had focused on helping him - and I realize this is the true core of human nature: When we've lost the strength to save ourselves, we somehow find the strength to save each other.

I'm in my element, and my element is hydrogen burning in the heart of the sun!

I am in my element, and my element is hydrogen burning in the heart of the sun.

There are no miracles here, just momentum.

I suspected you had a spark in you, but never dreamed it would be such an inferno!

If I exist without form--a soul sparking between a billion different servers--could not the universe itself be alive with a spirit sparking between stars?

To be young is the only religion.

But she projected vitality - you knew that she was there.

the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy.

Everywhere, Everywhere amazing, how grimly we hold onto our misery, ever defensive, thwarted by the forces. amazing, the energy we burn fueling our anger. amazing, how one moment we can be snarling like a beast, then a few moments later, forgetting what or why. not hours of this or days or months or years of this but decades, lifetimes completely use up, given over to the prettiest rancor and hatred. finally there is nothing here for death to take away.

sometimes it does not take a man or a woman, only something alive

But she project vitality - you knew that she was there. I could feel vibrations running between us.

I needed coffee, two coffees, a bite to eat.

More than 80 percent of the world's energy now comes from fossil fuels, and every bit of it is mined from the earth.

all the fossil fuels humankind will ever have are already here, waiting to be extracted from the ground—in contrast to food, which is grown every season from the soil, and freshwater, which is drawn in constant but limited amounts from rivers, lakes, and aquifers.

Far too often, we have been told that the future will be wracked by crises of energy scarcity, when the problems our children will face will be due to its abundance.

Solar research had been the product of anxiety about fossil fuels. When the anxiety faded, so did the interest.

Britain had just converted its entire fleet from the unsteady power of wind to the constant force provided by coal. Now, Churchill declared, Britain had to transform its navy a second time. Burning a pound of fuel oil produces about twice as much energy as burning a pound of coal. An oil-fueled ship could thus travel roughly twice as far as a coal-fueled ship of similar size. Oil's greater energy density meant that it, rather than coal, was the fossil fuel of choice.

becomes as hot as the sun? Earth, he knew, reflects some heat back into space. But why isn't all of it reflected? What keeps our planet cozily warm, Goldilocks-style, and not too hot or too cold?