The only problem with your proposal my dear is the fact the scenery will be disrupted with so many windmills. It's the reason why people living on Nantucket Island (mostly wealthy New Englanders) who own summer cottages/houses don't want them there they can see them.

There are proposals to place them out to sea, where the winds may be more constant and it's less of an impact on the environment.

I live not far from Ohio's first wind farm -- the largest operation east of the Rocky Mountains -- and there's talk of having more windmills up and running in the area. The only problem was the fact that it took nearly two to three years to find the proper site for the first four the municipal power system installed.

Once again, you have NASA to thank for being the instrumental genesis for not only the photovoltaic (solar) cell, but the advent of windmills for power generation.

Go Google!

Congrats to Google for making the effort to wean itself from a system which was found to have its so-called "crisis" a couple of years back manipulated by Enron in order to squeeze profits from people who could least afford it.

Hopefully, Google's example will convince other companies to add photovoltaic (solar) cells.

This isn't the first time a company (about 1/100th the size of Google) has decided to go solar. Many years ago a radio station -- IIRC in Archbold, Ohio -- disconnected itself from the grid and operated solely on solar and battery power.

Kudos to Google and keep pushing the envelope!

Thanks, Mamasan, but I wouldn't pack just yet... I can't explain why, but the by-product of my patented "Bitterness Generator" is a noxious cloud of fallout that smells like old cabbage and a wet ferret.

Then again, that could just be my apartment.