Comments on: Latest Call for Facebook to Unfriend Coal: Cartoons

By: Johannes Høher-Larsen

Johannes Høher-Larsen — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 19:00:37 +0000

I thought oregon had lots of hydro-power?
if not, it’s not like Facebook could couldn’t afford to go green. What could a datacenter possible use of energy? 10MW is a fair estimate? That’s like 10 large windmills to offset their energy use.

By: Katie Fehrenbacher

Katie Fehrenbacher — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:19:41 +0000

@ John Johnston, Steve Jobs also has said Greenpeace’s campaign and rankings about Apple helped push the company to be greener.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 14:06:05 +0000

How bad is coal really? Is there such a thing as clean coal?

Hello Everyone. I wanted to alert you all to a great non-profit research website called ProCon.org

They have a site on the pros and cons of alternative energy that can be accessed at http://alternativeenergy.procon.org

On the site there are a number of issues, including a pro/con debate by individual experts and influential business and non-profit organizations on the following question:

Should the US use “clean coal” as an energy source?
http://alternativeenergy.procon.org/view.answers.php?questionID=001346

By: Spiffster

Spiffster — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 07:45:20 +0000

Folks, this kid gives as much crap about what fuels his datacenters as he does your privacy. Give it up green-peace.

By: John Johnston

John Johnston — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 03:06:14 +0000

I hope the campaign works. Greenpeace’s recent campaign against Nestlé using palm oil certainly did.

Good point about Google making a real effort to change, in relation to clean power use.