Solar coming

Tuesday October 17, 2006 - 4:42AM EDT

Two posts ago I made mention of a company switching their office to solar power as a show of a real change in thinking about way to make things better. Well today I read an article that Google is going to get 30% of their power for their HQ complex from a new solar facility. I'd love to have seen it be 100% but you have to start somewhere and this is a good start. It will be hard however for other companies to copy them right away because they have so much spare cash they can afford an investment like this. I hope that they follow through with it and develop this idea further. If the eventually get 100% of their power from solar that would be awesome. Even extending environmentalism to a goal of not producing any waste from the facility at all. Everything is recycled and everything that they purchase will be from recycled goods. That would be an admirable thing. But I don't want them just to do it because they have the money. If they could do it in such a way that it could be reasonably copied by everyone. Allow them with their massive resources to work out the kinks so to speak in reaching  such goals and making them standards.