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Politics : Politics of Energy -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Road Walker who wrote (2468)	9/19/2008 9:31:08 AM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

Google is taking its own advice. He said the company's plan is to reduce global demand for oil and help to generate new white- and blue-collar jobs by investing in solar, wind, and geothermal energy projects. So far, Google.org has invested $10 million in geothermal energy and another $10 million in wind technologies. Bull. $20M is a drop in the bucket compared to what it has to be spending on conventional electricity. The internet (all those server farms, data centers, computers) is a massive user of electricity. Just saw their last quarter revenue was over $5 Billion. Their operating margin is 29%. I suspect they're paying hundreds of millions in electrical bills each quarter. And that doesn't count the electrical bills of their customers/users/advertisers/business partners. If Google isn't investing BILLIONS in energy projects, its nothing but a PR effort. $20M is pocket change - what they'd spend on a PR campaign, which is all that is. Put their money where their mouth is or shut up.