World-Wide Grid Within Reach

30 years ago, Buckminster Fuller came up with a plan to
plug all the world’s continents into the same electrical grid.
Energy companies dismissed the notion as pie in the sky – and then proceeded
to build such a grid.

Patrick
Di Justo argues in Wired that the world-wide grid is already in place, but that what is needed is a vision, and a plan, and
political muscle to make it work.

with
a great "Infoporn" pdf graphic