Can Bob Metcalfe do for energy what he did for computer networking?

The father of Ethernet is now a clean-tech venture capitalist - who thinks the answer is to find energy sources abundant enough to be "squanderable," Mass. High Tech reports:

... "When you're a hammer everything looks like a nail," he said. "I'm a networking guy so everything looks like a network to me."

Metcalfe believes the lessons learned building the Internet can be applied to the world's energy problems. Hence the controversial stance on consumption.