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Google X working on green energy project
Top executive Astro Teller calls innovation unit
'moonshot factory of Peter Pans with PhDs kind of running
amok'
By John Reynolds
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine
blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Google's innovation unit Google X is working on a green
energy project which its top executive Astro Teller
believes could "have an important part to play in the
future of the world energy production".
The alternative wind turbine project, which Google
executives are still fine tuning, is likely to be one of
the next projects coming out of the Google X, which
Teller described as a "moonshot factory" of "Peter Pans
with PhDs all kind of running amok".
The latest "moonshot" innovation from Google X follows
hot on the heels of Google's Project Loon, its
experimentation with solar-panelled balloons to bring Wi-
Fi to remote regions of Africa and the Asia Pacific.
Google Glass also emanated from Google X.
Google is working with Makani Power, the Californian
start-up wind-power company it recently acquired, on the
project, which uses complicated robotics to generate
electricity.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity on Tuesday, Teller said: "We recently
announced that we have purchased a company called Makani
Power. You get one of these 300 tonnes wind turbines, 300
tonnes of steel. You only get power through tips of
blades, just circulating in space. What if the little
tips circle in space without the 300 tonnes of steel �
wouldn't that be awesome?
"If you had a long tether attached to blades, you can
generate power by this specifically designed tether. This
technology exists. We believe there is some possibility,
because this is so much radically cheaper and easier to
deploy than a normal wind turbine that it may have an
important part to play in the future of world energy
production. That's the technology story."
Of the Google X project, generally, Teller said: "I have
this incredible collection of Peter Pans with PhDs all
kind of running amok, who are very productive in a sort
of loosely organised way. But if you hold on too tight
and turn it into something organised the magic will leave
the building.
"But if there is no oversight, then the magic will also
leave the building. So I've come to this phrase for my
story of what I am doing and what Google can become,
which is a Moonshot factory, because of tension between
Peter Pan and PhD."
Teller said he believed that a likely innovation within
the next 20 to 30 years will be the creation of
"factories for ideas", virtual factories which will
produce "new ideas in every domain".
More at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/18/google-x-green-energy-project
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Top executive Astro Teller calls innovation unit
'moonshot factory of Peter Pans with PhDs kind of running
amok'
By John Reynolds
guardian.co.uk
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Google X project suggests putting tips of wind turbine
blades attached to a long tether circulating in space.
Photograph: Murdo Macleod
Google's innovation unit Google X is working on a green
energy project which its top executive Astro Teller
believes could "have an important part to play in the
future of the world energy production".
The alternative wind turbine project, which Google
executives are still fine tuning, is likely to be one of
the next projects coming out of the Google X, which
Teller described as a "moonshot factory" of "Peter Pans
with PhDs all kind of running amok".
The latest "moonshot" innovation from Google X follows
hot on the heels of Google's Project Loon, its
experimentation with solar-panelled balloons to bring Wi-
Fi to remote regions of Africa and the Asia Pacific.
Google Glass also emanated from Google X.
Google is working with Makani Power, the Californian
start-up wind-power company it recently acquired, on the
project, which uses complicated robotics to generate
electricity.
Speaking at the Cannes Lions International Festival of
Creativity on Tuesday, Teller said: "We recently
announced that we have purchased a company called Makani
Power. You get one of these 300 tonnes wind turbines, 300
tonnes of steel. You only get power through tips of
blades, just circulating in space. What if the little
tips circle in space without the 300 tonnes of steel �
wouldn't that be awesome?
"If you had a long tether attached to blades, you can
generate power by this specifically designed tether. This
technology exists. We believe there is some possibility,
because this is so much radically cheaper and easier to
deploy than a normal wind turbine that it may have an
important part to play in the future of world energy
production. That's the technology story."
Of the Google X project, generally, Teller said: "I have
this incredible collection of Peter Pans with PhDs all
kind of running amok, who are very productive in a sort
of loosely organised way. But if you hold on too tight
and turn it into something organised the magic will leave
the building.
"But if there is no oversight, then the magic will also
leave the building. So I've come to this phrase for my
story of what I am doing and what Google can become,
which is a Moonshot factory, because of tension between
Peter Pan and PhD."
Teller said he believed that a likely innovation within
the next 20 to 30 years will be the creation of
"factories for ideas", virtual factories which will
produce "new ideas in every domain".
More at:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2013/jun/18/google-x-green-energy-project
Jai Maharaj, Jyotishi
Om Shanti
http://groups.google.com/group/alt.fan.jai-maharaj
o o o
o Not for commercial use. Solely to be fairly used
for the educational purposes of research and open
discussion. The contents of this post may not have been
authored by, and do not necessarily represent the opinion
of the poster. The contents are protected by copyright
law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
o If you send private e-mail to me, it will likely
not be read, considered or answered if it does not
contain your full legal name, current e-mail and postal
addresses, and live-voice telephone number.
o Posted for information and discussion. Views
expressed by others are not necessarily those of the
poster who may or may not have read the article.
FAIR USE NOTICE: This article may contain copyrighted
material the use of which may or may not have been
specifically authorized by the copyright owner. This
material is being made available in efforts to advance
the understanding of environmental, political, human
rights, economic, democratic, scientific, social, and
cultural, etc., issues. It is believed that this
constitutes a 'fair use' of any such copyrighted material
as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law.
In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the
material on this site is distributed without profit to
those who have expressed a prior interest in receiving
the included information for research, comment,
discussion and educational purposes by subscribing to
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information go to:
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must obtain permission from the copyright owner.
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