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In a conversation with Henry Ford (the car maker) in 1931 Edison said:

"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."

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Who received 57 patents between 1872 and 1920?

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