Google searches for cheaper energy
Committed to going green, internet search engine Google is investing in the development of new mirrors for their use in solar technology – with the potential to improve access to cheaper energy. Google’s green energy correspondent Bill Weihl confirmed that the company has been researching ‘very unusual materials’ for mirrors – for the actual reflective surface and the substrate which the mirror is mounted on.
Mr. Weihl also stated that they are hoping to reduce the cost of heliostats, a device that tracks the movement of the sun, by at least a factor of two, and possibly a factor of three or four.
Google invests in companies that do research in producing renewable energy as part of its continued efforts to find new sustainable and cheap energy solutions, and is currently working on a project to develop gas turbines that run on solar power rather than natural gas, however Google has also expressed their concern that not enough is being done to increase cheap renewable energy development.
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