James Woolsey the former director of the Central Intelligence Agency, is making me a fresh cup of Trader Joe's coffee. We are sitting around his kitchen island, two cats afoot, in the tasteful, solar-powered farmhouse where he lives with his wife near Annapolis, Maryland. Looking out the windows at the fields rolling to the West River, Woolsey excitedly describes his plans to plant camelina, a hardy Eurasian plant whose oil he hopes to convert to biofuel to supplement his geothermal heating system...
Like many clean-energy enthusiasts, Woolsey is part geek, part zealot. He's happy to spend a
Saturday morning showing off the three rows of photovoltaic panels on his roof, the meter in his basement that displays when his house is feeding electricity back to the grid, and his white hybrid with a "Bin
Laden Hates This Car" bumper sticker. "In two weeks," he boasts of his next oil-saving upgrade, "my Prius is going to become a plug-in."
