Google wises up re: cheap energy

Google wakes up and smells the cappuccino -- from Reuters:

Google quits plans to make cheap renewable energy
Google Inc has abandoned an ambitious project to make renewable energy cheaper than coal, the latest target of Chief Executive Larry Page's moves to focus the Internet giant on fewer efforts.

Google said on Tuesday that it was pulling the plug on seven projects, including Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal as well as a Wikipedia-like online encyclopedia service known as Knol.

A bit more:

In 2009, the company's so-called Green Energy Czar, Bill Weihl, told Reuters that he expected to demonstrate within a few years working technology that could produce renewable energy at a cheaper price than coal.

"It is even odds, more or less," Weihl said at the time. "In three years, we could have multiple megawatts of plants out there."

A Google spokesman said that Weihl had left Google earlier this month.

If wishes were fishes... Once again, there is no cheap renewable source of energy. There are some excellent nuclear options that are being willfully ignored and we have the option to become independent of foreign oil but this regime chooses to not do this.