Google plans 4.4-trillion-dollar green energy plan

San Francisco - Web giant Google unveiled a new national energy plan for the US Wednesday that it said would largely wean the country of fossil fuels by 2030. The 4.4-trillion-dollar plan was developed by Google's philanthropic arm Google.org, which predicted that the county would reap net savings of 1 trillion dollars over the idea's 22-year term. The plan called 'Clean Energy 2030' was unveiled in an online posting by Jeffery Greenblatt, Google.org's climate and energy- technology manager. It is based on halting the generation of electricity from coal and oil by 2030 and instead relying on power from wind, nuclear and geothermal sources. It also entails cutting oil use for cars by 40 per cent. It calls for heavy investments in transmission capacity for wind and solar power in the Great Plains and desert Southwest to help cut 88 per cent of fossil fuel use and 95 per cent of carbon-dioxide emissions by 2030. In addition, the plan calls for tapping geothermal energy as key technologies mature during the next few years. Specifically, the plan calls for the replacement of all coal- and oil-fired electricity generation with national gas and renewable electricity, including 380 gigawatts of wind power, 250 gigawatts of solar power and 80 gigawatts of geothermal power. Other elements of the plan include reducing energy use by 33 per cent via energy-efficiency measures, boosting sales of plug-in hybrid vehicles to 90 per cent of new car sales in 2030, increasing the average fuel efficiency of conventional vehicles from 31 miles per gallon to 45 miles per gallon in 2030, and turning over the country's current fleet of vehicles more quickly so that cars are driven only 13 years, instead of an average of 19 years today. 'With a new administration and Congress - and multiple energy- related imperatives - this is an opportune, perhaps unprecedented, moment to move from plan to action,' Greenblatt said. 'We see a huge opportunity for the nation to confront our energy challenges. In the process we will stimulate investment, create jobs, empower consumers and, by the way, help address climate change.'

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CraigOct 2nd, 2008 - 03:12:43

I am the founder of GreenEnergyTV.com and on a seperate site, I wrote last week about the $700 Billion bailout? Green Energy is the answer!

I was concluding by saying 'We are living in an Energy Revolution and it is a Green Revolution. Google and GE formed an alliance last week and don't be surprised to see them and others take on Big Oil and the Utility Companies here in the US.'

I am writing a new post right now titled: I told you Google was going to take on Big Oil and Energy Companies...

This is great news!

Stay Green!
Craig
www.greenenergytv.com

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bill kotcherMar 31st, 2009 - 22:26:15

This is ridiculous. 280 giga watts of solar panels, 240 mega watts of solar panels is one mile long, so this off the top of my head 1 giga watt of solar panels equals 4 miles, so we will have a solar farm 1000 miles long, 1000 miles deep.

Wind power is ridiculous, each windmill will use the same amount of fiberglass that a 60' luxury yacht uses. Do you have any idea how toxic the production of fiberglass is. Also fiberglass demand exceeds supply, so at current levels of production it is impossible to build the one million windmills proposed. Further fiberglass production requires the use of Propene, Propene comes from petroleum, Propene demand exceeds supply so essentially you have proposed to increase oil demand.

Geothermal is extremely polluting, I know, I have been exposed to Arsenic working at the Salton Sea's geothermal plants. Geothermal wells also become exhausted in a short time requiring the constant drilling of new wells, which require pipes to connect to the plant, literally miles of pipes. Geothermal is the most expensive power to produce due to its use of raw materials.

I could go on and on.

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