And finally, completing our tour of tomorrow’s NYT, The Mustache of Understanding points out that even though the government has not launched the much-discussed Manhattan Project for energy, there is in fact a “distributed Manhattan Project” going on as we speak, powered by American entrepreneurs:

Not a day goes by now that I don’t get a letter from some start-up that wants me to write about how it is turning trash, corn, sugar, coal, manure, hydrogen, waves, wood chips, wind, sunlight or switch grass into power.

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The major industrial country that gets the greenest the fastest, with the smartest technologies — that’s the country that will lead the 21st century. We’ve got the innovators; we’ve got the venture capitalists. If only we had the government that would create the right market conditions [the Mustache wants a “gas or carbon tax”] and then get out of the way.

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(Small sidenote to MoU: You can’t turn hydrogen into power. But I like your spirit!)