If you have no electricity to start with, even a little is a huge improvement. This is not meant for industrialized places.

"Outside of such radical solutions as living in walkable neighborhoods, bicycling, and using mass transit for daily trips"

"radical solutions"? how about, "sensible solutions"?

if the end results are the same, i see no difference

I know at least 10 people who play the banjo...

One of the earlier search engines had something like this - there was a live view of (all?) the searches being conducted at the time scrolling by at the bottom of the screen. It was called something like "search voyeur", and it was very interesting.

you are an idiot