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Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
« on: December 01, 2017, 03:56:14 pm »
Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
John Fitzgerald Weaver - Nov. 30th 2017 8:17 pm ET
https://electrek.co/2017/11/30/google-is-officially-100-sun-and-wind-powered-3-0-gigawatts-worth/

Google is officially off-setting 100% of its energy usage with either wind or solar power. The company signed contracts on three wind power plants in recent days to bring them over 3GW of production capacity.

Google’s energy infrastructure investments have totaled over $3.5 billion globally, with about two-thirds being in the US.

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Citing a cost decrease of 60%-80% in wind and solar as the driving factor, Google has been investing heavily in renewables. They first signed an agreement in 2010 to purchase all of the production per year from a 114MW wind farm in Iowa. As of November of 2016, they’d participated in 20 renewable energy projects. [...]
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Re: Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2017, 03:56:40 pm »
As the first sentence says, it's offsets.
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Re: Google is officially 100% sun and wind powered – 3.0 gigawatts worth
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2017, 04:06:18 pm »
I've offset my serial killing sprees by funding an anti abortion group.
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« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2017, 02:15:05 am »
Having 'offsets' to buy up renewables to compensate for the sins of using non-renewables is nothing more than a typical lib syndrome. One can waste as much as one wants, use whatever one wants, but if one can 'purchase' offsets, all is forgiven.

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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2017, 03:29:21 am »
Quote from: Oceander on December 02, 2017, 03:26:33 am
That'd make a good avatar image.



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