grid-iron blues

Hats off to Prez Obama for his futuristic thinking re: the Smart Grid. How else is America going to get all that “renewable” energy from the hinterland desert Southwest to Los Angeles? Laptops need power and the Neo-Greens are there to provide it, sustainably of course.

Here’s what Obama’s wonk had to say about the new plan to grid the land with smart wires – “Places with either solar or wind aren’t always the most populous areas of the country, and you’ve got to find a vehicle that’s technologically capable of moving clean power to places where the demand is greatest,” White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs told reporters traveling with the president yesterday.

Build it and they will come. The transformation of empty places continues. Same as it ever was.

pass the rechargeable flashlight.

posted by Mudd