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Google Leads the Way, Again
December 4th, 2007
Last week Google announced that the company, and its philanthropic subsidiary, Google.org, would explore research and develop renewable energy. The goal is to ultimately produce one gigawatt of renewable energy and do so more cheaply that coal-generated electricity, which of course creates vast amounts of CO2. I was thrilled to read the news reports of this announcement.
As someone who thinks about the future, converting global society to alternative and renewable types of energy and away from fossil fuels is perhaps the top challenge humanity …
Leading Scientists and Thinkers on Energy – Thomas F. Valone
September 21st, 2007
In this eighth installment of our on-going series of interviews with some of the leading thinkers and scientists on the subject of energy, we interview Dr. Thomas Valone.
Facing and solving the multiple issues concerning energy is the single most pressing problem that we face as a species. There is a lot of media coverage about energy, alternative energy and global warming, but what has been missing is the knowledge and point of view of scientists, at least in the main stream media. If you have missed the first seven interviews, please scroll down the right side of the page and …
