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Grading Google's carbon neutral claims
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“ One really nice thing about enhanced geothermal is that it's base load power: the fuel's always there, whereas for solar and wind, sometimes the sun doesn't shine or the wind doesn't blow and you can't produce any energy. ”
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“ While offsets with strong additionality can achieve real emissions reductions in unregulated sectors at a relatively low cost, we view them as a short-term solution for Google, not as a substitute for other action. ”
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It’s not easy being green: Data center edition
Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Fuel Cell , Wind , Cloud Computing
...om a panel on sustainable data centers at the Open Compute Summit held today in San Antonio, Texas. Bill Weihl, manager of energy efficiency and sustainability at Facebook and the former energy czar at Google, ...
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Two Views on Apple's Coal-Powered Data Center
Explore Technology Review (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing
...th for a more detailed look at the intersection of IT and energy. It includes a Q&A with Facebook’s Bill Weihl, where he talks about these issues. The Greenpeace report also applauded Google’s expansive renewab...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Google
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Facebook's New Power Player
Explore Technology Review (Apr 12 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing
...friend Coal" campaign that garnered 181,000 "likes" on Facebook's own Web pages. All of this is why Bill Weihl is important. The computer scientist was named by Time magazine as a "hero of the environment" in 2...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Google Bill Weihl
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Facebook Recruits Google Green Energy Czar for Sustainability Push
Explore CIO.com (Dec 21 2011) Construction , Wind , Cloud Computing
Facebook has hired Google's former "green energy czar" Bill Weihl, in a move designed to demonstrate the company's commitment to low-carbon computing and renewable e...
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Comment Mentions: Apple Greenpeace Amazon.com
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Google Energy Czar Weihl Moves to Facebook
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 20 2011) Fossil Fuel , Wind
Bill Weihl, who was the “Green Energy Czar” at Google, will begin a similar position at Facebook next month. W...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Google Bill Weihl
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Google Axes ‘Renewables Cheaper than Coal’ Project
Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 23 2011) Fossil Fuel
Comment Mentions: Google Bill Weihl Larry Page
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Google Green Czar Steps Down
Explore environmentalleader.com (Nov 9 2011)
Google green czar Bill Weihl quietly stepped down from his post yesterday.
Weihl, who headed the company’s Clean Energy Team,...
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Comment Mentions: Google Bill Weihl
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A sneak peek into Google’s servers and energy efficiency
Explore GigaOM (Aug 1 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers
...ta center floor space, as well as from media reports. Data Center Panel: Christina Page, Yahoo, and Bill Weihl, Google at Green:Net 2011 Yet despite that Google has so many servers, Koomey’s research helps to...
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Comment Mentions: Google Yahoo Bill Weihl
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Google Invests $100M In (Another!) Wind Farm
Explore GigaOM (Apr 18 2011) Wind
... Southern California Edison currently has a deal to buy the clean power. Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl (who will be speaking at Green:Net 2011 on April 21 in San Francisco) made it clear to us in interv...
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Comment Mentions: Google Yahoo Bill Weihl
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More Green than you can shake a stick at by Doug Moheny
Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (Apr 11 2011)
...ound bites being posted on "What green thinkers think about green," with Google's Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl bragging that his company has cut data center energy use by 50 percent by "very careful application...
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Comment Mentions: Greenpeace Google Yahoo
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Google Invests Massive $168M in BrightSource Solar Project
Explore The New York Times (Apr 11 2011) Solar , Wind
...h are tradeable certificates worth money on certain markets. However, as Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl (who will be speaking at Green:Net 2011 on April 21 in San Francisco) made it clear to us, Google E...
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Comment Mentions: Google Yahoo Department of Energy
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Microsoft & Google Share Stage to Talk Energy
Explore Greenpeace (Mar 14 2011) Cloud Computing
...onal business is conducted in the cloud. So, the question that Microsoft’s Rob Bernard and Google’s Bill Weihl are grappling with is: Will cloud computing help or hinder our transition to a clean energy economy...
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Comment Mentions: Google Bill Weihl Microsoft Corp
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Google Energy Buys Up Iowa Wind Power
Explore Data Center Knowledge (Jul 20 2010) Wind
...prices could easily rise. The agreement is exactly the kind of deal described by Google energy czar Bill Weihl in an April presentation, in which he noted that these deals may not provide renewable energy for G... (Read Full Article)
Comment Mentions: Google Bill Weihl
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Lower Your PUE
Explore Processor.com (Jun 18 2010) Servers
...Your PUE What Steps You Should Take To Reduce Energy Consumption Key Points • According to Google’s Bill Weihl, hot aisle containment is the single biggest step a data center can take in improving energy effici...
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Comment Mentions: Intel Google Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
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Greenqloud: Iceland’s Clean Power Cloud Computing Co.
Explore GigaOM (May 28 2010) Carbon Footprint , Geothermal , Cloud Computing
...d Professor Jonathan Koomey pointed out at our Green:Net ’09 event, and Google’s Green Energy Czar Bill Weihl discussed at Green:Net 2010, there’s been an increased effort by Internet companies to add clean po...
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Comment Mentions: Amazon.com Iceland Google
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