How Google Could Become Your New Energy Supplier

Google is to invest in companies developing clean-energy technologies as part of an effort to make renewable energy cheaper than coal. The internet giant is to develop software and hardware tools for energy management and plans to sell a percentage of the generated energy back to the grid for Renewable Energy Certificates. In other words, Google may one day be supplying your energy.

The initiative, termed RE < C ("renewable energy less than coal"), will see Google next year invest millions of dollars in research and development in renewable energy. The project is fronted by Google's Energy Access team, led by Arun Majumdar, vice president of Google's energy unit and former acting undersecretary of energy at the U.S. Department of Energy.

Investments will be focused on solar-thermal technology, wind power, and geothermal systems. Google has already entered into a 20-year green Power Purchase Agreement with wind and solar energy company NextEra and is working with solar-thermal company eSolar.

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Save $ With Better Lighting, a How To

Did you know that retrofitting your lighting to LED can not only save you money (up to 90%!), but reduce energy consumption and improve the quality of light in your space? If you have a new construction project or are interested in improving the quallity of light and efficiency in your current space, TerralLUX Illumination LED lighting modules and light engines are the solution! TerraLUX Illumination is a LED lighting company based in Longmont, CO.

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Mountain Dew in the UK?

After hearing endless stories about Britvic planning to relaunch the popular USA energy drink, Mountain Dew, here in the UK, I came to the conclusion that they were all untrue.

Just a few moments ago, I decided to take a walk to the local shop. I planned to get a drink and maybe a snack too, but my attention was caught by a bright green bottle in the drinks section. I walked over to see what this unfamiliar drink was...Yeah, you guessed it, it was "Mountain Dew Energy."

After "Googling" this relaunch, I actually found that this drink had been around for over a month! I was shocked that I hadn't heard about this, but it was a nice surprise nonetheless.

In addition, I also came across the fact that the UK version of Mountain Dew Energy actually contains more caffeine (2.5mg more per 100ml) and also uses an alternative colouring that is named beta carotene, whilst the US variation uses tartrazine.

I hope that this article has been fairly interesting to you, as I found it quite strange that it was only made available again in the UK in the past few weeks whilst its so commercially successful in North America. Thanks for reading!