Posts Tagged ‘clean energy’
Greenmonk have posted a fascinating interview with Vint Cerf (best know as ‘the father of the Internet’).
Vint talks about Google’s interest in clean energy including their commitment to sustainable computing, their investments in geothermal energy, and the 1.6MW solar panel installation that provides 30% of the energy requirements of their corporate head quarters. He also mentions Google’s fleet of plug-in hybrid cars. One of the interests in this technology is the concept of Vehicle-to-Grid Transmission, where by energy is fed back into the grid from car batteries to improve energy management and cope with peak energy demands.
Google have also created a proposal — Clean Energy 2030 — to reduce the US’s dependence on fossil fuels. Eric Schmidt, the CEO of Google presented this proposal last month.
