Bill Weihl Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:35:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 Google Pulls Plug on Renewable Energy Project https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-renewable-energy-cheaper-coal-shutdown-20111123/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/google-renewable-energy-cheaper-coal-shutdown-20111123/#respond Wed, 23 Nov 2011 19:35:03 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=21262 Anyone knows that by trying to catch two (or more) rabbits at once you probably won’t catch any. So does Google, it seems. Larry Page, their CEO, has now decided to pull the plug on a renewable energy project once ambitious: Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal. Maybe Page took Steve Jobs’s advice to focus on […]

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