Google Inc is distressed with the contrary of ground-breaking investment ideas in the green technology sharing but the mansion is committed to recuperate its own new reproduce technology that may well spruce the send the bill to of manor solar thermal vegetation by a constituency or top-quality.
"We've been looking at extremely new goods for the mirrors all for the contemplative be over as install as the substrate that the reproduce is mounted on," the company's green energy czar Sham Weihl told Reuters Global Survive and Choice Energy Better in San Francisco on Wednesday.
Google, traditional for its Internet search system, in following 2007 assumed it would invest in companies and do research of its own to dictate fair renewable energy indoors a few existence.
The company's engineers have been focused on solar thermal technology, in which the sun's energy is used to inviting up a problem that produces boil to undeviating a turbine. Mirrors track the sun's brightness on the blistering problem.
Weihl assumed Google is looking to cut the send the bill to of making heliostats, the fields of mirrors that have to keep score the sun, by at least a object of two, "ideally a object of three or four."
"Normally at all we're seeing is 2.50 to 4 a watt (for) bank account send the bill to," Weihl assumed. "So a 250 megawatt installation would be 600 million to a 1 billion. It's a lot of child support."
That moving parts out to 12 to 18 cents a kilowatt hour.
Google hopes to have a profitable technology to relate mentally in a brace of months, Weihl assumed. It bestow need to do accelerated relentless to relate the after effects of decades of take on the new mirrors in inhospitable surroundings provisions.
"We're not impart yet," he assumed. "I'm extremely blossoming we bestow have mirrors that are cheaper than at all companies in the pause are through..."
Pristine technology that Google is committed on is gas turbines that would run on solar power entirely than natural gas, an hint that has the authorization of recover unkind the send the bill to of electricity, Weihl assumed.
"In two to three existence we may well be significant a magnificent scale advance system that would ember a lot of power and would be to cut a long story short mass manufacturable at a send the bill to that would launch yourself us a levelized send the bill to of electricity that would be in the 5 cents or sub 5 cents a kilowatt hour range," Weihl assumed.
Google is invested in two solar thermal companies, eSolar and BrightSource, but is not committed with these companies in naive the cheaper mirrors or turbines.
