Danh ngôn của Vaclav Smil
U.S. industries from steel-making to plastics synthesis are among the world's most energy-efficient; American agriculture is highly productive, as are America's railroads. But for decades, Americans themselves have been living beyond their means, wasting energy in their houses and cars and amassing energy-intensive throwaway products on credit.
U.S. industries from steel-making to plastics synthesis are among the world's most energy-efficient; American agriculture is highly productive, as are America's railroads. But for decades, Americans themselves have been living beyond their means, wasting energy in their houses and cars and amassing energy-intensive throwaway products on credit.
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Tác giả: Vaclav Smil | Chuyên mục: Car | Sứ mệnh: [6]
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Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng tác giả: Vaclav Smil
- In every society, manufacturing builds the lower middle class. If you give up manufacturing, you end up with haves and have-nots, and you get social polarization. The whole lower middle class sinks.
- The great hope for a quick and sweeping transition to renewable energy is wishful thinking.
- I wouldn't put a big trust in what people in Silicon Valley say. They may be good at manipulating ones and zeroes and writing software, but beyond that, their contribution to human progress has been pretty dismal. I'm not impressed.
- There is no reason we can't design a car to last for 35 years instead of six or seven.
- Most of the energy in North America is just consuming - Wal-Mart, shopping centres, government offices - or personal consumption: houses, cars, flying to Hawaii, gambling in Las Vegas. We could live affluent lifestyles with half as much energy.
Các câu danh ngôn khác của cùng chuyên mục: Car
- Keep da money, cars, fame, and jewelry, and jus give me all the happiness - I'll be good forever.
- I really like listening to music in my car.
- Me and my partners had been stealing cars for a while.
- The way you dress or the car you drive or what you spend is to impress other people with how, I guess, successful and rich you are. But you're not, and you shouldn't, and who gives a damn what other people think anyway. So, that mentality, I think, is very destructive.
- Yeah, I left Idaho at 17. You know, I graduated high school a year early and just, you know, the typical story, packed up my car and moved out.