Quotes 
" ...That's orbiting at 19 miles a second, //
So it's reconed, //
The Sun that is the source of all our power. "
" If you want a little money from Solar Power, start with a lot, because you'll probably lose the rest. "
" Sometimes dealers hype the basic system and people are promised many more hours' worth of TV and light than is realistic. "
" To keep prices down, some dealers avoid selling their customers charge controllers which stop too much power being pumped into the battery or sucked out of it. As a result people run their batteries into the ground. "
" Building integrated systems might become an economic proposition in the future, even under UK climatic conditions, if the PV system can be incorporated into the building structure, displacing conventional building materials and components. "
" If there is one fact that has been made abundantly clear from this symposium it is that the world does not have many years in which to make a smooth transition from oil to alternative sources of energy. "
" The facts are plain. Current oil consumption continues to exceed new discoveries. The world has only a few decades in which to make this transition. Indeed, several countries of the Arab Gulf may have even less time in which to find an alternative source of national income. "
" We the need to use available resources and technologies to make solar energy the backbone of the electricity network. "
" I am a sundialAnd I make a botch,
Of a job done far better
By a watch. "
" Solar photovoltaic generation of electricity can be a multibillion dollar industry employing hundreds of thousands of persons and serving the energy needs of hundreds of millions of persons starting with the turn of the century. "
" Both the Japanese and the German Governments have decided that rooftop, grid connected PV electricity is good enough to subsidise.. As a result, the German solar panel market has taken off like a rocket and BP has 25% of it. "
" Japanese electrical companies are lining up to get a share of the fast developing market for residential solar power generation systems. "
" Kyocera, Sharp, Sanyo, Mitsubishi together have plans for production capacity of 210-240 MW by 2000. This is more than a tenfold increase in domestic production over 1996. "
" The solar power station.. provides the potential for the development of a new type of tourism in Crete with all the side benefits this might have on the local economic life and development. "
" The dominance of the US, Japan and Germany in the development of PV technology and markets, is in large part, due to the relatively substained government support provided. "
" Japanese electrical-appliance manufacturers are lining up to get a share of the fast-developing market for residential solar power generation systems. "
" Kyocera estimates that world demand (for Photovoltaics) will be 250MW per year by the year 2000, with 140MW in Japan. "
" All the world's energy could be achieved by solar many thousands of times over. "
" The basic commercialisation problem PV technology has faced for 20 years : markets will explode when module costs decline, but module costs can't decline much until the market grows much larger. "
" Even considering only the existing technologies, Renewable Energy Sources could contribute 50 per cent of the primary energy demand in the Mediterranean basin. "
" The current Altenative Energy budget (in the European Union) is just 40 million ECU from 1993-97.. Direct subsidies to fossil fuel and nuclear in the EU are approximately $15 billion a year. "