Except that UTOPIA is basically publicly owned. They only build out when they get a contract with a city, and so far the cities more or less own the networks when they are finished.

Citation: I am a UTOPIA user, and have been an avid follower of their plans for over 10 years.

Assuming my townhouse has a roof that is optimal to get full coverage from an optimally angled 100% efficient photovoltaic cell that is 16 square meters in size, on a clear day my solar array would produce on December 21st a bit over 10.6 kWh on average. So 254.4 kW per day on the worst day of the year.

The Tesla S uses 85 kW/h. I could drive 3 hours a day, assuming no household use and perfect transference/storage.

Or more realistically, 1 hour a day, and that leaves 269.4 kW for household use. Since the average household in the US of 1500 sq.ft. uses 864 kWh per month, I'd have an excess part way through the third day to "sell" to others.

So even at 50% efficiency, I'd have plenty of power, assuming clear skies, and the worst day of the year to gather every day.

Only because Steve Jobs died.

- Said the guy that saw the first wheel in use.

Any chance that's an open source program?

What?

Who'd really buy into that?

"Here, take my biological information. You want to use it to create an army of biologically superior clones? That's nice. Oh, $50? Even better!"

Hmm, looks like to me that section (c) would apply. So, unless the customer said they were being returned, no legal obligation to do so.

Whitehouse.gov Sign the petition, and at least get your voice out there.

Who know's? It might not fall on deaf ears.

Whitehouse.gov petition

Link here

I don't think it is an aside from Google's only real business model: Advertising. You get cars with billboards of cheap text books, or robots that have loudspeakers shouting about the great properties of this new diet pill.