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Google Plans Extensive Renewable Energy Push
reuters.com — Google Inc. said on Tuesday the Web services and online advertising group plans to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in coming years to promote a new push to encourage cheap renewable electricity. The project, known as Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal, is hiring engineers for solar, wind powered and geothermal technologies.
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- JudgeWinchester, on 11/28/2007, -0/+4Praise Google, they also gave Nanosolar big dollars.
- shortarabguy, on 11/28/2007, -1/+11Personally, I hate having to go through 2 pages of articles when they give you the option to see the whole thing in one page. I think this link should have it all in one page:
http://www.reuters.com/article/environmentNews/idU ...
This push doesn't exactly surprise me. They use very cheap machines, but their power consumption must be incredible. Google has a habit of doing good things that coincidentally happen to help their margins, and lowering their astronomical power consumption would be a good way of doing that. I'm not complaining, I'm just noticing a trend.- thcobbs, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Nawwww.... a business trying to save money by investing in better infrastructure?
Needless to say, I'm thrilled. If we have someone with the financial wherewithal, and corporate hype of Google, its gonna be great. Kinda like the old Bell Labs. You never know what you can come up with from a Giant Corporation,"Unlimited" funding, and people enjoying what they do. - unreg, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3So it's a win-win situation.
Good for Google, good for us. - m00nmaster, on 11/28/2007, -2/+1Personally, I hate double blogging. Reuters blogs about Google's blog. WTF is the Internet becoming?
Original (the one and only) blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/towards-mor ... - m00nmaster, on 11/28/2007, -1/+2(Sorry, Digg sucks with edits)
Personally, I hate double blogging. Reuters blogs about Google's blog. WTF is the Internet becoming?
Original (the one and only) blog: http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/11/towards-mor ...
- thcobbs, on 11/28/2007, -1/+6Nawwww.... a business trying to save money by investing in better infrastructure?
- govsucks, on 11/28/2007, -4/+3Thank goodness for free companies in the free market. You wouldn't see guys starting things like google in their garage and doing the things they are doing if society made the choices of what ideas to go with instead of individuals.
- byronm, on 11/28/2007, -1/+1Oh yeah, cuz we know Google employees don't use the roads to get to work, they don't use public works for energy, water, trash, they absolutely don't need any security, healthcare, benefits, wages or anything that our government has helped create/enforce/managed or brought into existence. Google could exist without the internet, google could exist without public education system, state ran colleges, people getting PHD's with federal money.. yeah.. corporate ***** american did all of that alone by itself. PUHHHLEEEASE.. Next thing you will tell me Google put up all those solar panels and didn't claim their california tax rebates or federal rebates as well and they did it ALL ON THERE OWN because the government sucks.
- govsucks, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5yeah, all those services you stated from government have brought us a bunch of innovation. /sarcasm
Isn't Google one of the top rated places to work? Don't they go far above any security, health care, benefit or wage issues that the government has mandated? And as far as public schools, not that they are (cause I don't know) but what if the founders of Google were educated in private schools? Are you saying that isn't possible?
I dare say we would be 50 years further with technology if government simply enforced the constitution and stayed out of the way in every other way. Because the government has monopolies over several industries doesn't mean jack. Actually it means less than jack, cause those few government monopolized industries have shown far less innovation than the hundreds of other private ones surrounding them. You think government keeping private business from competing in ***** like water, trash, education is great, yet you know what our technologies would look like if Government monopolized computer processor development....don't you.
This has nothing to do with the "corporate ***** america" that seems to frighten you to the point of crying bitch, but the strength of the free market and free people to make choices for THEMSELVES without government and know-it-all socialist intervention. PERIOD.
- govsucks, on 11/28/2007, -0/+5yeah, all those services you stated from government have brought us a bunch of innovation. /sarcasm
- byronm, on 11/28/2007, -1/+1Oh yeah, cuz we know Google employees don't use the roads to get to work, they don't use public works for energy, water, trash, they absolutely don't need any security, healthcare, benefits, wages or anything that our government has helped create/enforce/managed or brought into existence. Google could exist without the internet, google could exist without public education system, state ran colleges, people getting PHD's with federal money.. yeah.. corporate ***** american did all of that alone by itself. PUHHHLEEEASE.. Next thing you will tell me Google put up all those solar panels and didn't claim their california tax rebates or federal rebates as well and they did it ALL ON THERE OWN because the government sucks.
- optize, on 11/28/2007, -2/+9dup story.
- cmccool, on 11/28/2007, -5/+3i really hope that they figure something out, i'm getting tired of paying $3 a gallon for gas!
- Gemfinder, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1Convert your car to flex fuel. E-85 is hovering around $2.30, consistently.
- poisonborz, on 11/28/2007, -2/+4Google is a web marketing company, making big statements about economy/energy policy makes me think Blade Runner's gigacorps are a step nearer. Not that promoting this kind of stuff is bad, but the simple fact, that a company can grow tentacles outside it's working sphere is... weird.
- Gemfinder, on 11/29/2007, -0/+1You mean, like...Kraft and GE and Mitsubishi and Yamaha? Gigacorps aren't coming, they're here.
- Comanche, on 11/28/2007, -3/+4This is the 4th time this has been posted and been on front page! Stop digging the same thing!
- govsucks, on 11/28/2007, -1/+3Yeah, I agree. The people posting should also pay attention to that little page Digg puts up that says "This may be a duplicate story, are you sure you want to post" It also lists the stories it thinks are duplicates. So you would basically have to ignore all that to post this story for the 4th time.
- murf43143, on 11/28/2007, -2/+3(check top list for the day already) (buried)
- BrokenVisage, on 11/28/2007, -2/+3Buried for dupe!
- wintermd, on 11/28/2007, -1/+1Did't Jimmy Carter try this? And failed?
Do we have to go down this sink hole again? - gbak39, on 12/04/2007, -0/+0I think what google is doing is great for consumers and the company. By investing in R&D for cheaper energy replacing coal will ultimately help with environmental issues and, hopefully, bring about technology that can replace fossil fuels. Interesting strategy that Google is taking but one I definitely think will benefit the company and society in the long run.
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