Thursday, March 8, 2012

Thomas Edison on energy sources


“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 A. Edison

(Although this is widely quoted, I have not been able to find a citation of the original)

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Hey Tom,

Is there any way to redesign this site to make it easier to follow people's comments? If there was a box on one side automatically showing recent comments on articles, it would be pretty useful.

Shaun Hingston said...

Young Turks: UN officially denounces treatment of Bradley Manning

Glenn Greenwald: UN top torture official denounces Bradley Manning’s detention

Anonymous said...

Another thing Tom,

It might be worth putting up a brief article calling for an end to petty insults and mischaracterisations on both sides of the MMT/MMR divide.

Ryan Harris said...

Blogger has lots of newer styled templates... probably a matter of taking the time to do it for the busy fellas that run the place.

Tom Hickey said...

It's Mike's blog and he set it up. I am not familiar with Blogger, so I would have to get up to speed, which I don't have time for right now.

My own sense that Blogger has issues. It's owned by Google and Google has reconfigured it to make it quite proprietary and Google-centric. So it is probably getting to be time to consider migrating to a more robust format like WordPress or Drupal. But I am unlikely to find the time to learn enough of one of those to create a worthy site. However, those decisions are up to Mike as blog owner anyway.