Terraforming our moon will take many decades and vast abilities. Before we can begin, we’ll have to master the resources of our solar system – especially transporting raw masses over interplanetary distances. – Gregory Benford
In my district back in Texas, significant because we have a big solar panel production plant in Keller, Texas, we have a wind turbine plant in Gainesville, Texas, up in Cook Country. – Michael Burgess
The need to create a new taxonomy that isn’t just applying to our own solar system will become so evident and apparent that something will come out of it. I’m sure of it, even if it’s not tomorrow. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
The Venus transit is not a spectacle the way a total solar eclipse is a spectacle. – Neil deGrasse Tyson
I hope that by 2050 the entire solar system will have been explored and mapped by flotillas of tiny robotic craft. – Martin Rees
We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration. – Ken Salazar
One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels. – Jack McDevitt
Before solar, before Sunrun, if consumers wanted electricity, there was a monopoly of someone who told you how much it costs. – Lynn Jurich
If we just isolate distributed solar all by itself, it does not work without the utility around it. And so the utility needs to be paid for the services it provides. – Lynn Good
Since Sunrun introduced solar as a service in 2007, it has become the preferred way for consumers to go solar in the nation’s top solar markets. Sunrun has deployed more than $2 billion in solar systems and has raised more than $300 million in equity capital. – Lynn Jurich
When you look at the stars and the galaxy, you feel that you are not just from any particular piece of land, but from the solar system. – Kalpana Chawla
Thanks to the social web, we can share and trade to use a whole universe of things we once had to buy ourselves. From cars to solar panels, people are realizing they can reap the benefits of ownership without the expense and hassle of buying. – Lynn Jurich
I assume we will have figured out a way to efficiently utilize solar energy and tied that to an efficient way to use nuclear energy in such a way that it doesn’t pose a serious environmental issue. – John Hickenlooper
Compared to coal, which generates almost half the electricity in the United States, natural gas is indeed a cleaner, less polluting fuel. But compared to, say, solar, it’s filthy. And of course there is nothing renewable about natural gas. – Jeff Goodell
It is more likely that more than a century will pass before we know the structure of the chemical atoms as thoroughly as we do our solar system. – Johannes Stark
Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they’re attacking it. – Lynn Jurich
Windmills and solar cells are carbon-free sources of electricity. But they are costly. If you’ve been investing in those, give it up. That game is effectively over. – Kenneth Fisher
A century ago, scientists believed there was only one obvious stomping ground for alien biology in our solar system: Mars. Because it was reminiscent of Earth, Mars was assumed to be chock-a-block with animate beings, and its putative inhabitants got a lot of column inches and screen time. – Seth Shostak
The total amount of energy we use every year – from coal, oil, natural gas, hydro, nuclear, and everything else – is dwarfed by the amount of solar energy hitting the planet each year. – Ramez Naam
I’m an advocate for a full spectrum of energy policy, but we’re never going to get there with solar cells that are going to power this country. – Ryan Zinke
The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun. – Ralph Nader
Shortly afterwards, I did a third one to repair the robotic arm of the station. This arm plays a very important role in the ongoing expansion of the station as well as in the deployment of solar panels. – Philippe Perrin
Estimates are that at least 70 per cent of all stars are accompanied by planets, and since the latter can occur in systems rather than as individuals (think of our own solar system), the number of planets in the Milky Way galaxy is of order one trillion. – Seth Shostak
In days gone by, scientists would speak solemnly about our solar system’s ‘habitable zone’ – a theoretical region extending from Venus to Mars, but perhaps not encompassing either, where a planet would be the right temperature to have liquid water on its surface. – Seth Shostak
The Moon is a ball of left-over debris from a cosmic collision that took place more than four billion years ago. A Mars-sized asteroid – one of the countless planetesimals that were frantically churning our solar system into existence – hit the infant Earth, bequeathing it a very large natural satellite. – Seth Shostak
At present, it’s not really clear who is in charge of protecting the nation from solar and nuclear EMP. – Trent Franks
The Moon and Mars were the two most likely candidates for life in the solar system; what exists beyond our solar system is mere guesswork. – Walter Lang
When I was a kid, I was a bit of a space geek. I loved the space program and all things NASA. I would read books about our solar system; I had pictures of the Space Shuttle on my bedroom wall. And yes, I even went to Space Camp. – Simon Sinek
My studio cube is an experiment in solar heating and design. The south wall is covered with glass planks that collect and distribute heat naturally to my work studio on the second level. – Steven Holl
My house is solar powered. I tell Republicans, you can hate the subsidies – I hate the subsidies, too – but you can’t hate solar panels. These are rocks that make electricity, so they are incapable of receiving your hate. – Thomas Massie
