Google.
I remember reading a tech article around 7 (or more) years ago that was saying Google will eventually want to get seriously involved in the energy business. It sounded like a crazy idea back then (at least to me), but it just turned into reality.
Google and a New York financial firm have each agreed to invest heavily in a proposed $5 billion transmission backbone for future offshore wind farms along the Atlantic Seaboard that could ultimately transform the region’s electrical map.
Ultimately the system, known as the Atlantic Wind Connection, could make building a wind farm offshore far simpler and cheaper than it looks today, experts said.
Even though the energy produced by offshore wind-farms is more expensive than the one produced onshore through usual means, I’m still happy someone is doing something to advance towards efficiency and clean energy. I’d rather live in a slightly more expensive clean world than in a cheap but Chernobyl-like world.
via NYTimes
