Can Google Fix The Energy Crisis? Easily?

WASHINGTON -- Dan Reicher, Google's guru of all things related to energy and the environment, came to Capitol Hill on Wednesday with some ideas on how to keep Earth from overheating and poor families from freezing this winter in the face of sky-high prices for heating oil.

A central proposal, laid out in testimony before the Joint Economic Committee, was a national program aimed at cutting heat and electricity bills in 10 million low-income homes over a decade. The existing federal "weatherization" program saw its Energy Department budget eliminated recently. The hearing was called "Efficiency: The Hidden Secret to Solving Our Energy Crisis."

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Comments

[kanaschwiiz]

05:32 PM on 08/01/2008

Is it true that Google could save us energy if their page was black (not requiring the screen to be lit white)?

[research]

05:31 PM on 08/02/2008

Not for LCD's, they are light valves, the back light is always on.

OLED and plasma probably both draw more power with white then black, but it may be small compared to switching loses.

[RTIII]

07:51 PM on 08/02/2008

Then != Than.

or, equivalent­ly:

Then Than.

or, also equivalent­ly:

(Then = than) = false.

This speaks to an error you repeatedly make.
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[research]

03:26 PM on 08/01/2008

efficiency is nearly always the first and cheapest way to to reduce your energy bill. First I insulated my house, the replace the windows.

Then I start to think about wind solar.

[darthdarcy]

06:44 PM on 07/31/2008

We have the President and the Republican party lying to America yet again and wasting valuable time with this drilling nonsense, while blocking any regulation that will end the market manipulati­on on the Futures Market causing the doubling of prices in the lat year...

The President and Republican­s would rather see our economy collapse and give up their fetish for drilling and being fettered to Big Oil over the well being of our country..!

[KillTheMessenger]

11:45 AM on 08/01/2008

So what exactly does your fixation on futures trading, which you don't seem to understand­, have to do with saving energy?