How come Grist goes on and on about "local farming" and "local energy production" but a humongazoid knowledge monster like Google gets all the praise in the world?

I think Google's boolean search engine is probably one of the most destructive forces of human knowledge in history.   Google is a 1950s style coal fired electric plant, as it munges up locally build information and webpages and makes it fodder for some Google umbrella.

I'd love to see Google get somewheres with this project. Some of the money they spend will go for good things, plus it's great P.R. for the company.

Local is nice, but the internet by it's very nature is not local. But maybe local energy sources can power increasing parts of the internet.

I think they are already working on a way to enable internet sensing and switching to make a distributed renewable grid store it's own power.  And a way for consumers with plugin cars and solar panels at home to recharge at work using their own clean kwh, by balancing the accounting over the net.

What Google needs now is members of the team who moniter bloggerel created on this and other sites like it.  I think the collective consciousness pulsing over the web has the solution to our energy and climate problems.  Google just has to do what it does best, search.  And support research and development based on that search.

http://amazngdrx.blogharbor.com/blog John Schneider, Northern Wisconsin

I also suggest that if their effort succeeds they could make even grater profits from their investments.

P. Pease