Sergey Brin and Larry Page are of course the founders of Google.  That fact, in and of itself would be enough to respect them and praise them.  Simply based on influence, Google has become practically oracular in today’s world.  Not since the oracle of Delphi stood astride the rift in the ground has something had such power of affecting perception of the present and the future.  At least sometimes it feels that way.

When Sergey and Larry – and I use their first names with great respect, as when said together everyone knows who is being discussed – speak, a whole lot of people listen.  What they have spoken about this week is to be praised by all of us who realize that solving our energy problem is the single most important issue of today. For those that missed it, the two of them came out very strongly for creating a simpler and much more efficient electrical standard for computers.

Standing on a white paper by two Google engineers, Urs Holzle and William Weihl, entitled “High-Efficiency power Supplies for Home Computers and Servers” the founders of Google are lending their considerable weight to the notion that all computers can be electrically wired in such a way as to save billions of dollars in energy costs annually.

Evidently, at the birth of the PC in 1981, standard power supplies, which converts high-voltage alternating current to low-voltage direct current was required to provide “multiple output voltage” which is no longer necessary with today’s PCs.  The …