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All Roads Lead to Google, including Green Energy !
One of the great things in working in the renewable energy systems field, is you get to hear a lot of stories about the POWER OF SUSTAINABLE THINKING. Google must have read the book you see to the left here too! We all know by know, and if you don’t you soon will, that Google Earth is a very popular and very free online tool that’s available for everyone to use and enjoys playing around with. Oh, and did I say it was free? Umm, I did didn’t I? Well it’s true, there ARE still some free things in this world and that’s one of them. It’s a lot fun! .
Now, Google is spending some of it’s vast resources to map sites for solar and wind farm developers. Why? They are trying to be peace makers I guess, they wish to use it in an effort to cut off disputes.
How ironic is it that the renewable energy expansion finds itself having to sort out some unusual conflicts that keep showing up. For those less informed, the renewable energy projects are frequently opposed , quite lamentably by…can you guess? You got it, the environmentalist! Just look at what happening to many of the wind farms, they consider the wind mills to be harmful to birds. Another argument is that solar farms break up the local ecological environment for the amount of acres they require. The ones laughing , I am sure are the oil, coal and nuclear industries. But what gets me , is that all these industries have a similar impact on our environment, and often much worse!
Now I say that that is short term thinking! If the environmentalists were thinking straight, they would realize that, Passive solar or wind farms do far less damage than pit mining, say, and would soon displace, oil rigs, coal pits and nuclear facilities, all of which produce harmful environmental conditions. Ask you self this, if they are concern about birds, how many birds die in the pollution infested air, because they can’t breath? Come to think of it, how many of us, will soon die too early because of the toxic air we breath?
Well, I kind of strayed there a little didn’t I? Now I have run out time , so tune in tomorrow, I’ll tell you what Google is spending their money on….
