The greening of Google

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Google has put up solar panels on its complex's rooftops as part of an initiative to generate energy from renewable sources. The company also works on projects to help mitigate climate change, with the making of plug-in hybrid cars, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative, and the upgrading of its building systems to manage energy use optimization. Details on the company's solar panels and planning of other projects regarding energy efficiency are presented.

Strategy & planning, Use of energy, United States, Planning, Energy use, Information services, Company business planning, Google Inc., Cover story, GOOG

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Across the outback on photons alone: with Australia's desert as its raceway, the World Solar Challenge illuminates some of the best electric-vehicle technology

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The World Solar Challenge Race is a 3,000 kilometer race from Darwin, Australia to Adelaide, Australia. The cars in the competition are powered by six square meters of solar cells that give out one to two kilowatts of power which is around the same energy as a hair dryer. Delft University of Technology's Nuna car won the 2007 World Solar Challenge Race for the fourth time in a row.

Australia, Competitions, Solar energy, Automobile racing, Delft University of Technology, World Solar Challenge (Automobile race)

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A global search engine for geospatial data

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The development of the Global Earth Observation System of Systems by Yuri Gorokhovich at the State University of New York is described. The utility of this search engine for locating and retrieving geospatial data to predict disasters and assess the damage caused by them is discussed.

Research and Development in the Physical, Engineering, and Life Sciences, New York, Scientists, Design and construction, Works, Internet/Web search services, Search engines, Internet search software, Internet/Web search service, Text search and retrieval software, Gorokhovich, Yuri

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