Grids Quotes - Page 4

• There are about 46,000 jobs supported by the solar industry right now. That's fewer than it should be, too. And you have a whole other set of jobs in energy-efficiency in buildings and in creating the "Smart Grid," as we call it.

  Van Jones

  Jobs, Smart, Creating

  Source: aalbc.com

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• t century, hundreds of millions - and eventually billions - of human beings will transform their buildings into power plants to harvest renewable energies on site, store those energies in the form of hydrogen and share electricity, peer-to-peer, across local, regional, national and continental inter-grids that act much like the Internet.

  Jeremy Rifkin

  Hydrogen, Energy, Peers

  "‘The Empathic Civilization’: Rethinking Human Nature in the Biosphere Era" by Jeremy Rifkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• Dark furrow lines grid the snow, punctuated by orange abacus beads of pumpkins - now the crows own the field.

  John J. Geddes

  Dark, Reflection, Orange

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• In the studio you can auto tune vocals, and with drums, you can put them on a grid and make them perfect. I hate that sound. When someone hands me a record and the drums are perfectly gridded and the vocals are perfectly auto tuned, I throw it out the window. I have no interest in rock music being like that.

  Taylor Hawkins

  Hate, Rocks, Hands

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• I get so much inspiration from my travels, but I also started an exercise where I write down so many words every week. Then I begin crossing them off. We create a grid of words and also images, but words for me are more ample because you can interpret them your own way.

  Francisco Costa

  Inspiration, Writing, Exercise

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• The binders, the charts, the grids may seem formidable, but the meetings themselves are built around informality, trust, emotion and humor.

  Jack Welch

  May, Emotion, Formidable

  Jack Welch (2014). “Jack: What I've learned leading a great company and great people”, p.143, Hachette UK

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• Every day I get to 'Think' and work on everything from digitizing electric grids so they can accommodate renewable energy and enable mass adoption of electric cars, helping major cities reduce congestion and pollution, to developing new micro-finance programs that help tiny businesses get started in markets such as Brazil, India, Africa.

  Ginni Rometty

  Thinking, Cities, Car

  "IBM Names Rometty to Succeed Palmisano as First Female CEO" by Carol Hymowitz, www.sfgate.com. November 30, 2011.

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• For everywhere we look, there is work to be done. The state of our economy calls for action: bold and swift. And we will act not only to create new jobs but to lay a new foundation for growth. We will build the roads and bridges, the electric grids and digital lines that feed our commerce and bind us together. We will restore science to its rightful place and wield technology's wonders to raise health care's quality and lower its costs.

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Technology, Bridges

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• We've always had to worry about the electrical grid and nuclear facilities, and they remain a concern; but cyber-terrorism, you know, which is a word that you hear more and more, I think is a reality.

  Peter Facinelli

  Reality, Thinking, Worry

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• Delia's arms were inscribed with a grid of self- inflicted wounds, an intricate text of self-loathing

  Jay McInerney

  Suicide, Self Harm, Arms

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• The two championship contenders, Dario Franchitti and Will Power, are starting right next to each other in the middle of the grid. Honestly, if I can be fast enough early in the race to be able to get up there and latch onto those two, it will be pure entertainment. It's going to be a pack race, and you never know how that's going to turn out.

  Dan Wheldon

  Two, Race, Able

  "Indianapolis 500 Winner Dan Wheldon Dies After Massive Crash", www.foxnews.com. October 17, 2011.

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• I think the race went as well as it could and I drove well to finish sixth. The chassis is working better and through the corners we are more or less there; we'll move onto Europe and see if we can get further up the grid and keep improving. The weekend went pretty smooth for me until the end of the race, I don't know what happened, but the team will have a look at it.

  Daniel Ricciardo

  Team, Moving, Weekend

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• Once a quarter, Amy and I go off the grid and totally disconnect. It's totally doable and it will change your life.

  Brad Feld

  Balance, Amy, Changing Your Life

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• Before I got in the car, I was puking all over the place and on the grid. I was just a shaking wreck.

  James Hunt

  Car, Wrecks, Shaking

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• Man is in fact nailed down - like Christ on the Cross - to a grid of paradoxes. He balances between the torment of not knowing his mission and the joy of carrying it out, between nothingness and meaningfulness. And like Christ, he is in fact victorious by virtue of his defeats.

  Vaclav Havel

  Men, Christ On The Cross, Knowing

  "Václav Havel: Heir to a Spiritual Legacy" by Richard L. Stanger. Christian Century article, pp.368-370, www.religion-online.org. April 11, 1990.

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• Univa developing and supporting Grid Engine is welcome news for the GE community. This move by Univa brings with it a new competitive spirit and sense of innovation to a market that continuously benefits from pushing the envelope.

  Ian Foster

  Moving, Community, Innovation

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• I go on the bus, I walk. A friend left his car recently at my house and I took it out one day just for 15 minutes and it was terrible. You know why? I felt like I was back in LA again. Four or five years ago, when I had a car and I had been out of the city I wouldn't feel I was back until I got in the car, you know. But now I feel off the grid. I feel that I am not part of the culture. And because I don't have a car I don't really go anywhere to buy things. In fact, I have been in a slow process of selling and giving away everything I own.

  Vincent Kartheiser

  Years, Cities, Giving

  "Vincent Kartheiser: 'I definitely do psychopathic. I don't try to, but it just sneaks out'" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.

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• I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

  Ben Lerner

  Cities, Would Be, Way

  Ben Lerner (2014). “10:04: A Novel”, p.4, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• With a giant battery, we'd be able to address the problem of intermittency that prevents wind and solar from contributing to the grid in the same way that coal and gas and nuclear do today.

  Donald Sadoway

  Wind, Giants, Batteries

  "The missing link to renewable energy". TED Talks, www.ted.com. March 2012.

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• The problem is everybody is worrying about explosive vests and people with AK-47s. We live in a day and age when someone sitting in Somalia or in Chile or in Perth, Australia, can be sitting there with a laptop and can theoretically take down one of our power grids or part of our infrastructure and do infinitely more damage. Nobody talks about that. It's not a question of who comes into the United States. We're way past that.

  Ted Koppel

  Past, Australia, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think I sort of have a love/hate relationship with a reputation I have for being the designer who works with grids.

  Khoi Vinh

  Hate, Thinking, Reputation

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. March 3, 2010.

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• I think I can relate to this guy [Psycho Sam] that ended up... This desire to go off the grid and live on his own and didn't trust anyone or anything and I guess the thing that saved him in my head was that he had a great sense of humor.

  Rhys Darby

  Thinking, Guy, Desire

  Source: www.denofgeek.com

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• The fact that solar has gone down 80 percent since 2008 is astonishing. Wind is perhaps not coming down as quickly. Lack of storage - batteries - is a bottleneck. That makes it very difficult to put large amounts of renewable energy on the grid.

  Christiana Figueres

  Wind, Energy, Batteries

  "We'll Have a Global Climate Treaty in 2015". Interview with Catherine Brahic, www.slate.com. March 22, 2014.

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• Unfortunately, the cyber threat to 'the grid' is only one means of eviscerating the soft underbelly of American society. Another which has been getting increasing attention could be delivered via the kind of nuclear-armed ballistic missile that Iran and North Korea have been developing: a strategic electro-magnetic pulse attack.

  Frank Gaffney

  Mean, Iran, Korea

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• Where I live, if I put solar panels on my roof I'm not allowed to sell that energy back to the grid. I can't change that restriction myself. I need our local decision-makers to fix that.

  Katharine Hayhoe

  Decision, Energy, Needs

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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