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Google abandons its backing of renewable energy

November 23, 2011

Bill Weihl - Google's Green Energy Czar

The “Green Paradigm” is beginning to lose its sheen as realism begins to creep back in. In 2009 Google appointed Bill Weihl  as their “Green Energy Czar” and he made a big splash and boasted that within 3 years they would be producing renewable energy cheaper than coal.

He left Google earlier this month.

Reuters reports that Google are abandoning 7 projects including the “Renewable Energy Cheaper than Coal” project.

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