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While it was apparently an April Fool's joke, Google has outlined some related ideas on an "Open Source Planet" here:

Project Virgle: Open Source Planet

Google wrote: "If the first economic revolution was agricultural, the second industrial and the third digital, the fourth will be Open Source — the birthing of a planetary civilization whose development is driven by the unbound human imagination."
Maybe it was a joke, but there is a lot of truth to that statement. There has been further discussion of this idea on the Virgle list, on why the Open Source planet idea would not work unless it included constitutional protections for citizens, so that the citizens can have continued access to essential services that they may have helped build and which sustain them:

Project Virgle Google Group

Appropedia

What are some "free energy" technologies in practice and in theory?

What are the best solar panels made?

What hydrogen fuel cells are most practical?

At what rate are batteries doubling in capacity?

Are hydrogen fuel cells practical?

Solar Power to Rule in 20 Years, Futurists Say
Sun + Water = Fuel
Absorber Roof- Cost effective solar thermal collecting roofing material

What automated transport vehicles are available, a work in progress, or theoretically possible?

Solar Aircraft
Rail transport

What stuff can be made for free or with free as the goal?

Open Source Ecology