Comments on: Thomas Edison: For 100% Renewable Energy, Especially Solar

By: Americans Love Solar (Republicans, Democrats, & Independents) -- And More than Any Other Energy Source - CleanTechnica

Tue, 02 Oct 2012 20:37:52 +0000

[…] of people. It’s been like this probably as long as the idea of solar power has been around. Thomas Edison was clearly a huge […]

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 18:18:00 +0000

Good comment.

I grew up not far from Oak Ridge Labs and toured there as a kid back in the 1950s. At the time there was a display of the cars of the future that would run on electricity. It was pointed out that oil wouldn’t last forever and that electricity would be a cheaper way to drive around even before oil became scarce.

That was back when nuclear was going to give us electricity “too cheap to meter”.

Since then we’ve learned that claim isn’t true. But, thankfully, we’ve learned that wind and solar will give us electricity “cheap enough to make us smile”….

By: ThomasGerke

ThomasGerke — Fri, 06 Apr 2012 11:49:00 +0000

I dunno if he said this or not, but in former times there was much more discussion and talk about the problem of fossil energy.
Before the world of economics & politics got poisend by a short sighted mindsets and limited understanding of problems, responsibility & solutions there actually was an awareness of the existencial problem of baseing our entire civilization on energy sources that will run out eventually.

That was also the reason why nuclear energy became the sort of religion it was/is since the 1970s. If you go back and look how it was subsidized and pushed by governments, it primarily happend because it promised a solution to the many problems of fossil energy sources… even before climate change was on the radar.

As we know today, nuclear power failed misserable in fulfilling most of it’s promises and even created huge new burdens for society.

By: How Renewable Energy Burst onto the Scene in the 2000s | Planetsave

How Renewable Energy Burst onto the Scene in the 2000s | Planetsave — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 10:53:07 +0000

[…] our homes and cars has been a dream for decades. Actually, as you can see in the quote above, Thomas Edison was dreaming about renewable energy back in 1931. Despite all this enthusiasm for clean and renewable energy, however, it has taken […]

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Thu, 22 Mar 2012 01:33:00 +0000

Thanks. I was a tincy bit nervous it was a misquote. But was trusting MoveOn.org’s fact checking.