The energy team at Google has been analyzing how to greatly reduce fossil fuel use by 2030. Their proposal - "Clean Energy 2030" - provides a potential path to weaning the U.S. off of coal and oil for electricity generation by 2030 (with some remaining use of natural gas), and cutting oil use for cars by 38%.
On BusinessWeek: Google's Green Agenda
Google’s not spending much in absolute terms on its investments in alternative energy companies—about $45 million through its Google.org philanthropic arm. But its executives have been spending a lot of time lately pushing green energy. Why? Schmidt commissioned the $4 trillion proposal, which is intended to complement other alt-energy proposals from Al Gore and onetime oilman T. Boone Pickens, as a way to influence whatever new administration is elected.
The Official Google Blog: Saving electricity one data center at a time
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