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Finishline42 Donating Member (167 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 04:03 AM
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Google-Backed Solar Startup Picks Up Steam - from Wired
Google using their $$$$ to help develope solar concentrated power plants.

http://www.wired.com/science/planetearth/news/2008/04/solar_thermal

But they aren't the only ones - the oil sheiks are getting into the business as well with Torresol.

http://earth2tech.com/2008/03/12/solar-thermal-jv-to-spend-124b-in-spain/
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madokie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-22-08 11:06 AM
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1. Google has bought 800 acres of our industrial park
Edited on Tue Apr-22-08 11:06 AM by madokie
and are building a data center of some sort that is all being done under real high security. They say that in the end they will have a different enterprise, my word, on each of those 100 acres. I wonder what they have in mind for us here in NE OK. We already have a duo coal powered plant and two natural gas generating plants now.


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