[rhombus]

“Technically” incorrect title...rules.

[Einigkeit_Recht_Freiheit]

Let’s hope they can do it.

[JacksonCalhoun]

Nothing beats oil and coal and nucular, but if they can do it, all the more “power” to them. I’d be more impressed with that than the latest software gadget.

[Izzy Dunne]

The newly created initiative, known as RE"We have gained expertise in designing and building large-scale, energy-intensive facilities by building efficient data centers,"

They really should work on that name...

[ikka]

Google probably uses a gigawatt themselves, so if they can figure out a way to drop the price of a fixed cost for themselves they will get their money out of it.

Remember that they have a number of large datacenters which can use huge amounts of power, and are building more.

In my own case, my two racks at the datacenter I have space in, uses more power over a month, than 5 townhouses do. Now consider that Google has thousands of racks worth of equipment....

[rawhide]

You changed the title of the press release/article. That is a no-no.

[humblegunner]

The real title of the article is:

Google's Goal: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal

I wonder how that got mixed up.

[mad_as_he$$]

Everybody needs a hobby.

[Lead Moderator]

To prevent duplication, please do not alter the title. Thank you.

[cowtowney]

http://acmqueue.com/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=330

[cowtowney]

http://money.cnn.com/2006/05/05/technology/fastforward_fortune/index.htm?source=yahoo_quote

[SkyDancer]

Somebody help me out here - isn’t “renewable energy” an oxymoron? I mean once you convert energy from one form to another you loose energy to provide energy, like it took energy to make gasoline that provides energy to drive a car but once that energy is used, how is it recovered?

(too early in the morning for proper thinking, sorry)

[MikeGranby]

There a nasty whiff of arrogance to this. Google announce that they’re going to do what no-one else has been able to do because they are richer, smarter and less ‘evil’ than everyone else on the planet. Coming next, a cure for the common cold. If only it were that easy...

[wizr]

Anyone checked the price of MILK per gallon? If that ain’t renewable, I don’t know what IS!