Google Scientists Admit Renewable Energy Can't Work
http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/112414-727808-renewable-energy-cant-replace-fossil-fuels-say-google-scientists.htm
Junk Science: Google is literally and figuratively pulling the plug on its investment in renewable energy because the technology doesn't work. Will its flop persuade the feds to stop dumping billions down this rat hole?
Back in 2007 Google commanded star-spangled headlines with its new high-tech venture to go all in on the next big thing in technology: green renewable energy.
The tech giant was saluted as a good corporate citizen for its initiative to help combat global warming. In launching the project, company executives boasted they would prove that wind and solar power were not just good for the environment, but that solar energy could be produced profitably on a mass scale to replace dirty coal and even natural gas.
Its "green energy czar," Bill Weihl, boasted: "It is even odds, more or less" that within "three years, we could have multiple megawatts of plants out there."
Well, today those power plants don't exist, and Weihl is gone from Google. CEO Larry Page has decided that the grandiose program called Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE
Mad Poet Strikes Again.
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