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1 " It could mean the difference between striking it rich and running out of cash. "
― Russell Gold , Superpower: One Man's Quest to Transform American Energy
2 " Michael Zilkha, who owned half of a company called International Wind. "
3 " the price of solar power would fall a decade later. The first indication of these falling prices occurred on April 1, 1999, although it wasn’t an April Fools’ joke. "
4 " Thomas Edison had brought online the first coal-fired power plant. Power plants burned one billion tons of coal to generate more than half of the electricity used in the country. "
5 " One hundred and four nuclear power plants provided another 20 percent of the power, a steady output but one that was unlikely to change much. The last new order for a nuke in the United States had been in 1978. "
6 " Renewables were no longer the province of dreamers, people who wanted to divorce themselves from fossil fuels with a few solar panels and wind turbines. "
