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14:16 June 10th, 2009

Google Green Energy Czar geeks out on solar thermal

Posted by: Peter Henderson
Tags: Environment, , , , ,

Google Green Energy Czar (real title) Bill Weihl sat down with Reuters to talk about Renewable Energy Less Than Coal - the company’s plan to make affordable clean energy. Google started off trying to green up its own computer operations and then launched this save-the-world effort, which includes some investment in renewable energy startups and the work by a Google team.

Weihl describes that work in the video below, saying that the chances of successfully creating clean energy at less than coal prices - or about 3 cents per kilowatt — had risen from long shot to roughly even odds in about three years’ time.

This is an overview of Google efforts (that’s me asking questions):

And here is Weihl giving a bit more detail of solar thermal work for you wonks (like me):

Video by Peter Henderson/Reuters

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What do they mean Geeks out? Why do they call scientists and engineers and people with minds geeks?

The government should fund a study to answer that question!!!!

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