The irony in all those post-Solyndra diatribes about the evils of government picking winners and losers is that government has always had its hands in the energy game.

Imagine a world with clean power plants. All transportation, manufacturing, recycling would be done with near zero impact on the planet. Even better, the energy supply would be free (or low cost) and renewable. There would be no wires and poles, no dirty energy grid and no nuclear power.

The EPA estimates that 10% of the nation's air pollution is caused by lawn equipment such as chain saws, lawn mowers, golf carts, blowers and weed whippers. 5% can be contributed to lawn mowers alone. More fuel is spilled each year by Americans topping off their lawn equipment than was spilled by the Exxon-Valdez.

If you can pay your electric bill, you can make the switch to solar. That's because Citizenre will install photo voltaic panels on your roof and rent them to you for the same price as your current average monthly electric bill. Plus, once you sign a rental agreement, your flat rental rate stays the same for the life of your 1, 5 or 25 year contract.