But for local economic reasons some people resisted that idea, even in the days before tapping wind on the plains and sun in the desert became a national goal.
A secure energy future rests in tapping wind and solar power and increasing efficiency -- solutions that are quicker, cleaner, cheaper and safer than those the oil industry and the administration exhort us to pursue.
Palm recently tapped Wind River, a mobile Linux/BSD development company, to provide the OS for its ill-fated Foleo device.
The earth's heat is always there waiting to be tapped, unlike wind and solar power, which are intermittent and thus more fickle.
It makes no sense for us as a country to be shipping billions of dollars overseas when we have such abundant resources that could be tapped, including wind, solar, and, as yesterday's Wall Street Journal points out, natural gas.
Given little chance of prevailing until a week ago, Mr Brown has tapped the winds of frustration and anger with the perceived lack of progress in Washington and a widespread feeling of disappointment, itself fuelled by both the stalling economic recovery and the rhetoric of conservative media commentators.
But the City of Bayonne may tap the wind quicker.
For centuries, tapping the wind was the domain of the miller, his family and his hand-set sails.
Why should you build transmission lines to tap better wind energy on the Great Plains, for instance, when you can instead help farm owners in your own state?
The scientific community is revisiting the inkling to tap the wind resources in more rigorous and novel ways.
According to the New York Times, the leaders of these states "see tapping the wind, and to a lesser degree the sun, as an economic strategy.
