Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
Barack Obama
PowerPlantsElectricityEnoughYear
The waste from power plants is essentially what is left over when you burn coal. And as we all know, coal is a relatively dirty mineral.
Charles Duhigg
PowerPlantsYouDirtyKnowBurn
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
John Harrison
GardeningPlantsYouBuildSoilUp
Much as Africa has leapfrogged straight to mobile phones, it has the opportunity to skip the dirty, grid-tied power plants that currently operate across the developed world and go straight to clean, distributed power.
Alex Honnold
OpportunityPowerPlantsWorldDirty
I, in fact, have been involved in the construction of and the management of wastewater treatment plants.
Jeff Miller
PlantsConstructionManagementBeen
While it is true that we must seek value added industries like food processing plants and call center operations, we must do what is necessary to expand and develop our economic profile.
Alan Autry
FoodValuePlantsTrueOperations
Any object, whether animate or inanimate, will have a size. Airplanes, boats, or musical string instruments vary in size just like animals and plants, and in all cases, their size and their material construction are totally different matters even though they affect one another.
John Tyler Bonner
PlantsConstructionAnimalsWill
I was the kind of kid who liked omnivorously almost all kinds of science - rock collections, fossils - and I like leaves, I like plants, and I like biology.
Sandra Faber
SciencePlantsBiologyKindRock
So high do these plants stand in the favour of the Chinese gardener, that he will cultivate them extensively, even against the wishes of his employer; and, in many instances, rather leave his situation than give up the growth of his favourite flower.
Robert Fortune
FlowerGrowthPlantsStandSituation
Some bioengineering is good, especially if it results in plants that are more drought-resistant or perennial food crops.
Margaret Atwood
GoodFoodPlantsResultsMoreSome
The difference is that for a soundly conceived and solidly endowed republic it takes a great deal longer for those seeds to germinate and the plants to grow.
Robert W. Welch, Jr.
GreatPlantsSeedsGrowDifference
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals.
Georg Brandes
LifeChildMePlantsAnimalsTrue
I've visited Lincoln Park Zoo more times than I can count because I believe the more the public learns about our animals, plants and environment, the better equipped we are to play a leading role in protecting our planet.
Mike Quigley
PlantsBelieveBetterI CanPlay
I think we should stop using nuclear power plants because it's an old system that we can't control.
Hayao Miyazaki
PowerPlantsControlThinkStopOld
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
Mitch Hedberg
FunnyWaterPlantsFakePretendDid
My family owned a bunch of pharmaceutical manufacturing plants and other consumer-goods manufacturing plants. We would license Western goods and manufacture them in Iran and distribute them throughout the Middle East.
Dara Khosrowshahi
FamilyPlantsManufacturingMiddle
A third of our food comes from pollinating plants.
Louie Schwartzberg
FoodPlantsOurThird
For many years, I hated nature. As a student, I refused to put a plant anywhere - a living plant, that is. Dead plants were OK.
Zaha Hadid
NaturePlantsPlantStudentLiving
We're losing biodiversity globally at an alarming rate, and we need a cornucopia of different plants and animals, for the planet's health and our own.
Diane Ackerman
HealthLosingPlantsAnimalsNeed
In the depths of the moor, the peat may be seen riven like floes of ice, and the rifts are sometimes twelve to fourteen feet deep, cut through black vegetable matter, the product of decay of plants through countless generations.
Sabine Baring-Gould
PlantsFeetDeepBlackIceMatter
The majority of the world is empty space. Empty space, empty space, empty space. All that we see in the world, the life, the animals, plants, people - it's all empty space. That's amazing!
Chris Evans
LifeSpacePeopleAmazingPlants
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course, then allows me to consider the hybridity of language.
Natasha Trethewey
ScienceI AmMePlantsLanguage
When I get up early, I appreciate the quiet time to enjoy a coffee or water my plants.
Christina Tosi
TimeWaterCoffeePlantsAppreciate
We are already experiencing the symptoms of climate change, especially with a hotter and drier climate in southern Australia - the rush to construct desalination plants is an expensive testament to that.
Malcolm Turnbull
ChangePlantsAustraliaExpensive
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