Danny Kennedy > Quotes

“Most plentiful, accessible, and least expensive power source in the world.”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“But recent advances of ingenuity based on solar power’s brilliance have unleashed the creativity of entrepreneurs and capital. These advances are supported by serious social movements—committed activists who seek to break the corporate power of Big Oil and Big Coal and to reduce pollution and corruption.”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“Solar-panel manufacturing is relatively simple (it’s less complex than, say, making a car), and a lot of it can be done using automated methods or low-skilled labor, of which China has plenty.”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“Henry Ford’s development of mass production or Thomas Edison’s invention of the light bulb. These economic achievements led to mass literacy, an acceleration of learning, the creation of the vast American middle class, and ultimately the suburbanization of the United States”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“The truth is, we should be glad that China is making solar panels cheaply—it makes these products more affordable for Americans and the billion-plus people on the planet who don’t currently get electricity and would otherwise turn to dirty planet-cooking coal, oil, or gas to get it.”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy

“On the subcontinent, Pakistan has passed the point where solar power is cheaper than a lot of electricity that comes from diesel generators,and India is upping its target from 20 to 33 gigawatts to be installed by 2020”
― Danny Kennedy, Rooftop Revolution: How Solar Power Can Save Our Economy and Our Planet from Dirty Energy