Sometimes he was a prophet:

“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 Alva Edison talking to Henry Ford and Harvey Firestone in 1931

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