Venus Project

Zeitgeist 2 mentions the Venus Project which proposes the world can be run on solar, wind, tidal and geothermal power, with electric cars and maglev trains for transportation, and unlimited abundance of food, shelter and basic needs by eliminating scarcity.  Technology would handle 90% of labor, while technology itself improves to be more and more efficient because it won't rely on money or competition, but instead payment will consist of warm happy thoughts and paintings. 

So what are some flaws in the idea that there is enough energy, food, and advanced technology for everyone in a society relying on resource and energy abundance without using money as a competitive incentive?  Could Intel create better CPUs by being paid in happy thoughts?

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7065205277695921912
http://www.thevenusproject.com/getInvolved.html

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it's not expensive, it's impossible, wind and solar are very seasonal, you can't base whole country infrastructure on fickels of mother nature

tidal calls for really extensive investments, ones that impact environment much, much more than any other energy, especialy nuclear

and geothermal isn't aviable everywhere in resonable prices (in some places you have to dig really deep (more than few kilometers) to achive power needed to power society, and so it will be expensive no matter how the technology moves forward, it could decrese by one or two orders by magnitude and still stay prohibitly expensive