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Thomas Edison: Tenant farmers

“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 Edison, inventor (1847-1931).

Thomas Edison built the world's first large-sc...
Thomas Edison built the world’s first large-scale electrical supply network. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

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