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Duppers

(28,120 posts) Fri Feb 11, 2022, 02:43 AM Feb 2022

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Edison quote

We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Nature's inexhaustible sources of energy -- sun, wind, and tide. ...

I'd put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.

- Thomas Edison, (1847-1931)

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Ralph Nader.. Duppers Feb 2022 #1

Wow....nailed it. OAITW r.2.0 Feb 2022 #2

Too bad Edison didn't join with Tesla, his rival inventor... brush Feb 2022 #3

Duppers

(28,120 posts)

1. Ralph Nader..

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Fri Feb 11, 2022, 02:51 AM

Feb 2022

"The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun.“

— Ralph Nader

OAITW r.2.0

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2. Wow....nailed it.

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Fri Feb 11, 2022, 02:52 AM

Feb 2022

He figured out the lightbulb and commercialized it. He was a visionary.

brush

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3. Too bad Edison didn't join with Tesla, his rival inventor...

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Fri Feb 11, 2022, 05:50 AM

Feb 2022

who bettered his direct current electricity with alternating current electricity in Tesla's work on free radiant energy.

https://scholars.direct/Articles/electronics-and-communication/jec-1-001.php?jid=electronics-and-communication#:~:text=One%20of%20the%20Nikola%20Tesla%27s%20attempt%20to%20provide,globe%20is%20still%20alive%20today%20%5B%201%20%5D.

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