Wind Power To Fuel Data Centers For Google
July 21, 2010 by admin
Filed under Green Energy News
Google Inc’s energy unit has entered into a deal to buy wind power from NextEra Energy Inc for the next 20 years to power data centers.
The deal comes less than three months after the giant Silicon Valley Internet search company invested $38.8 million in two wind farms in North Dakota, developed by NextEra Energy Resources, that generate enough energy to power more than 55,000 homes.
Google Energy LLC will begin buying wind power from July 30 from NextEra’s facility in Iowa at a predetermined rate, Urs Hoelzle, Google’s senior vice president of operations, said in a blog on Google’s website.
“Incorporating such a large amount of wind power into our portfolio is tricky, but this power is enough to supply several data centers,” Hoelzle added.
Google has pushed ahead in addressing climate change issues as a philanthropic effort through its Google.org arm.
The often-quirky company said in late 2007 that it would invest in companies and do research of its own to produce affordable renewable energy — at a price less than burning coal — within a few years.
The company’s Google Energy unit, formed in December, allows the company to buy large volumes of renewable energy from the wholesale power market.
(Reporting by Poornima Gupta, editing by Gerald E. McCormick)
Facts About Wind Energy
April 28, 2010 by admin
Filed under Green Energy News, Green Energy Video
Wind Energy The Facts:
Many of our natural resources such as natural gas, coal, and petroleum have a limited supply and because much of this is controlled by the likes of Russia and in the Middle East this also posses a security issue. That is where wind energy comes in. The video below explains some of the facts about wind energy.
Green Energy Technology – Green Power Options Into The Future
January 20, 2010 by admin
Filed under Green Energy News
Water
There’s actually several applications of water when it comes to power. You’re probably familiar with the Hoover Dam, which produces energy by running power through the Dam. In a similar application, one can actually use the current of a river to produce power. Additionally, scientists are now researching using the power of the tide as well is the power of waves for sustainable energy production.
Sun
Solar power is probably what comes to mind first when you think of renewable energy. This type of power uses the radiation from the sun to produce energy. Solar power can be as simple as having solar panels on your home or as complicated as a solar power plant that generates electricity for a town. Solar power relies on solar panels that collect the radiation from the sun and turned into energy. Once collected, it can be used for your home’s needs right away or stored in batteries for later use.
Wind
Windmills have been used for ages, but today’s wind turbines are a far cry from the scenic windmills of Holland. Be that as it may, wind can be a powerful energy producer and there are many turbine farms, as well as individual turbines for single family homes, throughout the US that help in renewable energy production that doesn’t produce any pollutants.
Biomass
Biomass actually refers to any biological material either living or recently dead. Technically fossil fuels could be considered biomass but they’ve been dead for so long that their structure is changed and they are not quite in the same category as things like wood. Burning wood or sugarcane is considered biomass fuel and since we can replant these things they are considered renewable. While they do cause carbon dioxide to be released into the air, the live versions of these actually absorb carbon dioxide so if you are replanting as much wood as you burn the net pollution would be negligible.
Exploring in the direction of the future, green energy technology will be certainly an approach to choose. Definitely, we have not investigated these options perhaps up to what we need previously however currently it’s apparent that we should come up with a number of remedies to fulfill our energy requirements. Maybe exploration may explode on each one of these fronts and we could quickly be capable of yielding power in a clean and renewable fashion which may serve United States for years in to the future.




