Google goes into Energy Production

[vespax]

Associated Press

If Google realizes its goal, the cost of solar power should fall by 25 to 50 percent, co-founder Larry Page said in an interview.

The Mountain View-based company initially hopes to harvest cleaner-burning electricity to meet its own needs and sell power to other users or license the technology that emerges from its initiative, dubbed "Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal."

"If we achieve these goals, we are going to be in the (electricity) business in a very big way," Page said. "We should be able to make a lot of money from this."

Google's headquarters already draws some of its power from one of the country's biggest solar power installations.

"As Google grows, we don't want the business to become part of the problem. We want to be part of the solution," said Larry Brilliant, executive director of Google's philanthropic arm, Google.org.

Toward that end, Google aims to produce one gigawatt of power from renewable energy at prices below the rates of electricity generated at coal-burning plants. One gigawatt power would be enough to supply the needs of a city the size of San Francisco.

Page predicted the goal could be reached in a matter of "years, not decades."

Looks like we are all going somewhat green soon!

 

[The_Unbeliever]

And M$ still uses broken chairs for their energy-producing coal-fired power stations

 

[Nod]

They should rather look into Meglev Wind Turbines.

 

[Koos Custodiet]

>They should rather look into Meglev Wind Turbines.

Knowing Google they probably did a study into what was feasible and what was *cough* hot air *cough*.

 

[vespax]

They should rather look into Meglev Wind Turbines.

Some visual impacts but if the tech actually works, than it would be great.
$53 million! those sound really affordable for the output.
Thanks for the link.

 

[vespax]

For those interested in the current conditions at Google and their Solar Panels...

Solar Panel Project

 

[Nod]

>They should rather look into Meglev Wind Turbines.

Knowing Google they probably did a study into what was feasible and what was *cough* hot air *cough*.

They are already building it in China.

 

[fskmh]

They're going to need it for their server farm here .

 

[vespax]

They are already building it in China.

source?

 

[Nod]

source?

Construction began on the world’s largest production site for maglev wind turbines in central China on November 5, 2007

From the article I linked to before.

 

[vespax]

Read that, but for such a large and potentially valuable energy source, surely there would be more documentation about the project around.

Central China is a big place to search in google earth!

 

[Nod]

Probably just going to test the technology. It's only a 5000 watt turbine, which seems a bit too small. Hopefully that's a mistake in the article.