Win...d Power!

The Daemon would be proud (I suggest you go read Daemon by Suarez). Google again showing their ability to want to do good in the long run has invested $38 million in to Wind Farms built by NextEra. You can read the summary here

I love this idea, I am all for any type of energy production that take emphasis off of coal and gasoline power. While I hope that humans will eventually get to a place where we drastically cut down on the amount of harm we cause by our existence, because honestly I don’t see things slowing down, the only thing we can hope for would be to create new sources of power that keep up with our demands for power but are less harmful than what we have now. Wind Farms may not be the most efficient method, and a lot of people don’t like the way they look, but it is a step in the right direction, and to have this change coming from a massive corporation is well … a breath of fresh air. I am sure there are some good bottom line enhancing, financial reasons for Google’s decision here, but at least they are investing in something semi-long term, which show that they are concerned with the big picture rather than just the here and now.

The conversation about power is a tough one, people are happy to admit that they don’t want to use coal and gasoline as power supplies, but they are either unwilling to make the changes to a less harmful method of power because it will also have drawbacks. At least for the short term everything will have draw backs, wind power kills lots of birds, and people are scared to death of nuclear power. Before we get to a place where a non harmful source of power we need to take the baby steps towards things like Wind Power, and you know what, screw birds.