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Google invests $20 million into renewable energy

Posted May 22, 2008 9:24 AM

From Newlaunches.com:

Alternate energy is the coolest rage today, but not everybody has the capacity to make money out of it. Unless of course you are Google! Google is now planning into the energy business, and as any of its previous ventures its going to do it in a big way. It already has a history of investing in renewable energy, with its Mountain View, Calif. headquarters already being powered, in part, by one of the largest solar electric installations in the United States.

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Re: Google invests $20 million into renewable energy

05/24/2008 10:55 PM

That does sound interesting, and also hopeful.

But will all costs and energy expended in making this <"....one gigawatt of renewable electric power at a per watt rate lower than that of coal within "years, not decades."....">, be included in the equation?

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