Lynn Jurich Quotes

Rooftop solar is the first true form of competition that utilities have ever faced, and that is why they're attacking it.

When you have solar panels, your electricity gets there for free, no one's figured out how to meter the sun yet. And that's good.

The roof of my house is covered in solar panels. When I'm home, I'm a pretty green fellow.

Battering down solar cells on the roofs of Wal-Marts in California. I think that will be some of the highest-return investments that anyone ever makes.

For every family in liberal San Francisco that went solar with SunRun in 2010, nearly eight families in more conservative Fresno made the switch to our solar power service.

We are talking about institutionalizing a program on solar development that will outlast the Obama administration.

Solar power is the last energy resource that isn't owned yet - nobody taxes the sun yet.

The use of solar energy has not been opened up because the oil industry does not own the sun

All of us have got to pay into a certain system, and what we're saying is it's 100% American that every American should be able to create, store and sell their own energy as they see fit. Let's decentralize energy. Let's democratize energy.

I've seen firsthand the dramatic savings that solar energy can generate.

A lot of people still like Solaris, but I'm in active competition with them, and so I hope they die.

The sun penetrates me soundlessly like a distant friend that stirs up my laziness, fertilizes it. We bring forth life.

Every four minutes, another American home or business goes solar.

We can deploy a half a billion more solar panels.

You could power the entire United States with about 150 to 200 square kilometers of solar panels, the entire United States. Take a corner of Utah... there's not much going on there, I've been there. There's not even radio stations.

Apple is apparently building a large solar energy farm in North Carolina. And if there's any justice, the minute they're done building it, God will introduce a newer, smaller sun that's not compatible with their machinery.

Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in all of 2008.

Just think, that man can claim a slice of the sun.

If you were running a solar company you may be okay - you may be able to keep growing. The question for physics is: Can you grow fast enough to begin to catch up with the damage?

You might say, well, aren't people saying that about wind and solar today? Not really. Only in the super-narrow sense that the capital costs per output, when the wind is blowing, is slightly lower.

We owe our lives to the sun... How is it, then, that we feel no gratitude?

The two most abundant forms of power on earth are solar and wind, and they're getting cheaper and cheaper.

Solar power seems to be truly bipartisan in its appeal.

The main problem with solar on the Earth's surface is that it is so intermittent, and we don't have decent storage yet.

If we use our fuel to get our power, we are living on our capital and exhausting it rapidly. This method is barbarous and wantonly wasteful, and will have to be stopped in the interest of coming generations. The heat of the sun's rays represents an immense amount of energy vastly in excess of waterpower...The sun's energy controlled to create lakes and rivers for motive purposes and transformation of arid deserts into fertile land.