Google Go’s Green with Wind Turbine Investment
by Jack Lundee

Emission reduction, green spaces, and renewable energy are some of the most talked about topics of the 21st century. With the recent passing of Earth Day, and the undying rally for improved green efforts worldwide, some industry giants are making a large footprint.

Oddly enough, it isn’t the work of highly regarded green organizations (i.e. – Greenpeace and Global Green USA) that’s capturing everybody’s attention, but surprisingly enough extremely large technology companies, like Google for instance. Recently, Google stated that it had invested $38.8 million in two North Dakota wind farms impressive Take a look. – “On Friday we made our first direct investment in a utility-scale renewable energy project — two wind farms that generate 169.5 megawatts of power, enough to power more than 55,000 homes.” Rick Needeham, (Google’s Green Business Operations Manager), wrote within that Google is greatly interested in discovering new opportunities to invest in renewable energy projects that really ”push the envelope.”

It wasn’t enough for Google to be the world’s biggest search and advertising company; it’s evident that they truly do want to power the globe. Although, this isn’t the first time that Google has made a large investment in green energy. Back in 2007, Google dove into clean-tech fray, clearly stating that it would spend “hundreds of millions of dollars” to create alternative energy sources that are cheaper than coal, which as we know it is the world’s dominant fuel source and pollutant. They included that their effort RECTC (Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal), would consist of wind power technologies, solar power, and more.

It’s sometimes tough to make the connection between search and alternative energy, but with Google at the forefront of campaigns like this, it certainly makes me feel a bit more comfortable. With enough energy to power nearly 55,000 homes, Google is making a tremendous impact on sustainability for our planet. Non-profits and other similar collaborative units have been doing their part in supporting green initiatives since the beginning of the movement. For instance, Niranjan Shah and Globetrotters Engineering Corporation work closely with the USGBC (US Green Building Council) to improve building standards and provide LEED based architecture. Although, it’s the unpredictable, long tail efforts of cash cows like Google that are helping substantially. Much like the individual, businesses must play their roles in promoting sustainability.

Google entered into green technology development in startup companies and its own consumer energy tracking tools, although, they hadn’t quite moved into actual working energy fabrication. This could infer future investments by Google, perhaps leading to the acquisition of their own wind powered turbine that would facilitate their own business needs.

Jack Lundee – Follower of all things green and progressive

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Wind-farms on hillsides, domestic turbines, hydroelectric power and many other sources of renewable energy are slowly but surely becoming more day-to-day and accepted as viable energy supplies, but what’s got many experts talking is the matter of what will the world’s next fuel source be? As fossil fuels start to run out and even fuels that are in current use, like the water and hybrid powered cars, raise questions amongst the energy industry, experts are coming up with various means of creating energy in the near future.

The most base-level example of a possible energy source could well be microbes. In a process that is quite similar to distilling alcohol, some scientists have suggested that creating ethanol from plant waste could be the solution to dwindling oil supplies as microbes found in termites and various other jungle insects can easily process plant matter into sugar which, through a distillation process, can become ethanol. Though the process has been proven to work so far, with around 4 billion barrels of the product produced in the US last year, compared to about 140 billion barrels of gasoline used in the US, experts have warned that the excessive amount of Midwestern cornmeal needed to create the fuel could easily outweigh America’s supply for both the dinner table and farm livestock.

Another consideration for a fuel of the future is algae, the green marine plant matter that sustains ocean life. The diverse and multi-cellular matter can produce an oil which, if used properly, scientists and futurologists are predicting it could be one of the biggest economic breakthroughs of the 21st century. Algae is not only incredibly resilient and can therefore grow in almost any amount of tepid water, but it also grows and regenerates at a remarkable rate, so can easily be harvested in a man-made environment, as opposed to stripping natural essential algae from the oceans. Also, an eco-friendly bi-product of algae is that the organism absorbs carbon dioxide, shrinking the greenhouse effect. Other biofuels can be used and reproduced in similarly man-made ways, including vegetable oil; however fuels like these have been criticised for requiring more energy to make than they end up producing. However biofuels recently got a much-deserved PR push after a Continental Airlines flight flew biofuels solely, with about 2% algae oil.

If scientists can’t find a cost-effective way to produce algae oil and other natural biofuels, then perhaps they might have to look towards household waste for an answer. It is widely reported that the world’s oceans are full of plastic rubbish, which forms giants flotillas which are not only bad for sea-life but have also recently been attributed to difficulties in locating planes and boats that have crashed or sunk in open water. Some believe that unwanted rubbish could be turned into an energy source. In fact, it’s already being done: The Honolulu Derelict Net Recycling Program already collects discarded fishing nets and processes them to produce a crude oil and, if the system is proven to work it could see the biggest clean up the world’s ever witnessed, as well as creating new power generation and transmission bi-products.

Paul Buchanan writes for a digital marketing agency. This article has been commissioned by a client of said agency. This article is not designed to promote, but should be considered professional content.
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