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p2pnet news | Product News:- With everything else it’s into - its own Net?, politics, getting consumer data onto its own servers, etc, and so on - Google is expanding into alternative energy, “to ease the environmental strain caused by the company’s voracious appetite for power to run its massive computing centers.,” says Associated Press.
Ahhhhh! Harness the sun! A green and environmentally friendly Google. Noble 
The project is called ‘Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal’ and under it, “the Internet search leader and its philanthropic arm will pour hundreds of millions of dollars into a quest to lower the cost of producing electricity from renewable energy sources such as wind and the sun,” says story.
Thanks, guys.
Google, “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,” says AP and, the aim is to reduce the cost of solar power 25 to 50%, co-founder Larry Page said.
“If we achieve these goals, we are going to be in the (electricity) business in a very big way,” Page said.
Then comes the punchline.
“We should be able to make a lot of money from this.”
Renewable green for Google.
Thanks, Lar.
Also See:
Net? - Google wants its very own Net, February 3, 2006
politics - Google, world political force, June 19, 2007
own servers - Google wants data — OUR data, November 27, 2007
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November 28th, 2007 at 9:42 am
No need to be snarky about this. Google is doing a good thing here. If alternative energy sources are ever to catch on in a big way, they will need to be economical, i.e. cheaper.
I hope Google succeeds in this venture, and that when they do they make tons of money from it. They would deserve it.