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Going Green at Google
Poziom:
Temat: Środowisko
Google does a lot of work to be
green because it's the right
thing to do, and we want to
take responsibility for our
impact on the environment, and
because in most cases it
makes business sense.
Google pledged to be
carbon neutral in 2007.
When we look at being carbon
neutral, it's actually
the third step in a
three step process.
One is operate
more efficiently.
The other one is operate
off renewable energy.
And then whatever you can't
solve with those two, then you
offset with carbon offsets.
We design and build our own
servers, and design and
build our own data centers.
And we've done a lot to make
each of those much more
efficient, about twice as
efficient as is typical
in the industry.
What I get from the executives
is not, oh, that's too much
money, but rather,
need to do more.
So when we installed these
solar panels here it was the
largest corporate installation
of solar panels in the U.S. We
signed a 20 year contract to
buy all the power from 114
megawatts of wind
turbines in Iowa.
We now have certainty that what
the price will be for that
energy for the next 20 years.
We have a bunch of products
that actually help
our users be green.
One of them is
Google Power Meter.
And work we're doing with other
companies in that space to help
people understand their home
energy use and to empower users
to really take control of
that energy use and then
hopefully reduce it.
Google Earth-- it's an
incredibly powerful tool for
visualizing what's happening on
the ground in remote parts of
the world that are
under tremendous
environmental threat.
Scientists who are working to
stop deforestation in the
Amazon said, Google, would you
please take Google Earth and
expand it, so that we can have
the satellite imagery, the
analysis in your computers,
and we can stop the
deforestation of the Amazon.
That's Google Earth engine.
Google's invested over
$100 million in energy
companies or projects.
The Atlantic Wind Connection is
a development project to build
an offshore transmission cable
that acts as a superhighway
which can significantly
increase the amount of offshore
wind that becomes available for
clean power to the
mid-Atlantic.
Compared to the dirty sources
of energy that most of us rely
on, renewables are two, three,
five times more expensive.
So we started an initiative
called RE less than C,
Renewable Electricity Cheaper
Than Coal, with the goal of
driving very rapid innovation
in the renewable energy sector.
To drive the cost of renewables
down where they compete
head to head with coal.
And everyone here is excited
about being green, about
doing things that are
environmentally responsible.
And it comes through
in everything we do.
