After the Commonwealth Club's panel discussion on fighting global warming (see post below), I got meet briefly with Dr Larry Brilliant, executive director of google.org - the philanthropic arm of Google with an estimated $2B in funds (based on google's current share price).
Not that Google needs my help for publicity, but yesterday Google.org announced their major initiative to help reduce the price of Renewable Energy to be below the cost of energy made by coal (RE<C)
As Larry mentioned yesterday at the panel, until renewable energy is cheaper than coal, then India, China, and the rest of developing world will not convert from coal. Their 1st priority is getting their people out of poverty, reducing global warming is 2nd. Cheap renewable energy accomplishes both.
After the panel discussion, I thanked Larry for google.org contribution of the award money for CCTO Green Building Competition. Hopefully, we will have another opportunity to work with Google in the future.
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