GOOGLE EASES OFF NEW ENERGY RESEARCH

More Spring Cleaning Out of Season
Urs Holzle, November 22, 2011 (The Google Blog)

"…[W] e’re in the process of shutting a number of products which haven’t had the impact we’d hoped for, integrating others as features into our broader product efforts, and ending several which have shown us a different path forward. Overall, our aim is to build a simpler, more intuitive, truly beautiful Google user experience…

"…Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal (RE [less than] C)… was developed as an effort to drive down the cost of renewable energy, with an RE [less than] C engineering team focused on researching improvements to solar power technology. At this point, other institutions are better positioned than [Google.org] to take this research to the next level…"


From GoogleGreen via YouTube


"…[W]e’ve published our results to help others in the field continue to advance the state of power tower technology, and we’ve closed our efforts…

"…[Google Ventures and Google Treasuries] will continue our work to generate cleaner, more efficient energy—including our on-campus efforts, procuring renewable energy for our data centers, making our data centers even more efficient and investing more than $850 million in renewable energy technologies."