Googlewatt
Bloody hell, Google just announced they're becoming an energy company!
More (but light) info here.
Makes a lot of sense - renewable energy is a primarily a clean technology problem (vs. mucky industrial activity like digging for coal or drilling oil), maybe it makes sense that the emergent renewable energy company for the 21st century is a computing org, experienced in distrbuted computing and electrical redundancy, coupled with large amounts of investible cash, rather than say BP or Shell (with those pesky shareholder dividends).
Cynically, announcing a focus on solving one of the biggest problems humanity faces is probably a great way to prop up investor confidence in the upside potential of their massive share price valuation.
On a more basic note, I particularly like the way they've simpified this incredibly complex idea into a simple to grasp goal 'gigawatt of renewable energy capacity that is cheaper than coal'.
