Google Goes Green

foobsr writes "Google today announced its RE<C project to make renewable energy cheaper than coal in the near future. The company, and its charitable arm google.org, plan to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in the initiative. Larry Page stated: 'With talented technologists, great partners and significant investments, we hope to rapidly push forward. Our goal is to produce one gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal. We are optimistic this can be done in years, not decades.'"

Comments

Re:Nuk-u-lar

[rucs_hack]

I think we should go ahead with nuclear power stations, and put electricity generating treadmills outside. That way when all the hippy 'love the earth' fools that come in their SUVs to campaign with full stomachs, you can generate power from their marches?

how do you measure black power

[Anonymous Coward]

in niggerwatts

Re:how do you measure black power

[Anonymous Coward]

It only shows you're an implicit racist.

just because it's "renewable" and "cheaper"

[stratjakt]

doesn't make it "green".

Of course, like a bunch of morons, CO2 emissions are all we're measuring for "green-ness", so despite the amount of poisons dumped into the sea to create solar cells, or any other toxic byproduct, we'll still pat ourselves on the back for being so "green".

And then we can pony up 86 billion dollars the UN wants to help the rest of the world "cope" with the 0.3 degree change in temperature over the last 50 years. (Or the -2.3 degree change over the last 200 - thats right sport, the world is cooler).

Re:How about energy storage?

[Anonymous Coward]

Did it ever occur to you that the world is *round*? As in, when it's dark in the US, the sun is actually shining elsewhere. Amazingly, the same goes for winter/summer.