Google Environmental Stuff

There’s been a lot of environmental stuff at Google, and I’m not really sure how much of the news gets out to “normal” people, so here’s a rundown…

This a pretty cool page describing the power collected by Google’s solar panels. It only has a couple of days of data, so keep that in mind (it was just launched this week).

There’s also a project from google.org for plug-in hybrid vehicles. This is a modified hybrid car that has an additional battery and can be charge by (you guessed it!) plugging it in. I got to ride in one for a while on a trip a couple of months ago, and it worked pretty seamlessly. See RechargeIt.org for more information about the cars and environmental impact.

Google will be carbon-neutral by 2007. Yahoo already finished doing this, too. Quite a feat considering how much energy these companies use.

I have some more pictures to post from the last couple of weeks, but I’ll wait until tomorrow. I need to get some sleep… I’ve been on an earlier schedule lately (at work in time for breakfast), and it’s been pretty good.