Eric Schmidt at Corporate Eco Forum

[JustinNeverSayNever7]

Eric Smidth you're the man.

[vritaimo]

did you know tha portugal has first electric cars out into the public selling in 2010 , at about 14.000 usd . 2000 daily production.

does not pay parking " it has special conditions " why does u.s.a not have this option as a such advanced country " wake up , you are getting behind in eco systems .

[dhwgsg99]

I hope obama saw this

[DissMasterTupac]

MorphingCaesar2

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[DissMasterTupac]

MorphingCaesar2

Wasabi Lee

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[BySplaindert]

Google! Yeah!

[hprof1]

Google Google Google !

[perkoke]

Google will be the new Hitler.

[underverser]

Google intends to share any intelligence together! (p)

[bubert124]

damn long video

[Zerie]

the important videos that google posts tends to be long

[abdulnafie]

its b'coz they own youtube and probably the internet!

[elpresidio]

Excellent!

[ctrlshifttab]

LOUD NOISES in comments! But video is very quiet.

[thelastminuteblog]

Funny to see people with vested interests come out of the woodwork on this talk. Most of Mr. Schmidt's other talks get hardly any response...

If there is anything I've learned about Eric Schmidt and Google it's that they do their research. Every decision Google makes is based on huge amounts of data.

He's a visionary CEO and a brilliant guy so I think I'll take Eric's word over some YouTube commenters!

[jasbcor]

The wind doesn't stop, but it fluctuates like crazy. The installed base of wind power in the USA only produces 25% of its name-plate capacity rating, meaning 4x the amount of turbines must be installed for a given amount of average desired output. At $2 million each, 1600 2MW turbines would be $3.2 Billion + extras for 800 MW of output. That's a rather poor proposal.

[embercafe]

I wonder how much longer this fine individual will live. The service he is doing to our country, and for that matter the world, is immeasurable. THANK GOD FOR ERIC SCHMIDT AND THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE.

There is hope for capitalism.

Google may single-handedly save our country from the pending financial-ecological-political collapse.

LONG LIVE ERIC SCHMIDT!

[Charbax]

So when is Google going to release the low power thin client type low cost computer system for people to use in their homes?

Will those computers run on ARM processors and DSP for multimedia? Can you turn off the main CPU when it is not needed? Will you run Google Android with Google Chrome on $100 Laptops and Desktops?

[marjan15]

Apparently Eric Schmidt doesn't yet know for the Great Global Warming Swindle. "Eco" is just a modern buzz word.

Please check facts first before go in a million dollars investments. CO2 is not causing warming, its the other way around. [skepticalscience com] Solar panels may pay of in 100 years if you count all investment of it. [RISC] If the Earth would cool, that would be real problem, because Earth is near natural ice age. [friendsofscience org]

..

IS GW meme becoming sort of religion?

[Mamsecks]

How can you try to contradict the CEO of one of the biggest companies when you're, for sure, far from a lot of information he has? There's no way he would say 5 years if it was 100 years.

Anyway, I would really enjoy this video to be featured. It's great information that should be shared and put in reach to as many as possible.

I'm rather thankful I have subscription to Google's channel.

[marjan15]

See this blog post with all links (i can't post links here): motls(dot)blogspot(dot)com -> search for RISC: Solar panels pay back in 100 years

[Mamsecks]

And just because you have one study as a source it's a fact? Consider the number of studies that have been done on this subject. The RISC might be a very important institute, but that doesn't make their study a fact when a lot of others do not accept it. If Google participated in this project it's because they saw profit, real one. If nobody did it, I would go with trusting RISC, but if there are companies doing it, I can't see them being stupid.

[marjan15]

Wow, you think that something is a fact only when lots of people accepts it regardless of research with scientific method?

[Mamsecks]

No. There's research with scientific method that has been done on this. Lots of it (just search on Google, you get tons of results). What I mean is that just because a single study case did not agree, you cannot consider that study a fact. Even scientific method does not make things 100% certain.

[marjan15]

Ok, here we agree. Now show me at least one research that shows that solar panels pay back in less than 5 years. Remember that you have to count all sources needed to develop and actually manufacture it. And if government gives money to such companies, you have to count that too. Also efficiency in real environment is *far* lower than manufacturer says it is.

[Mamsecks]

I don't have to, since there's no point on doing so. It's not the same to put a solar panel in the desert of Sahara than to put it in the north pole (obviously). So, the beginning of the discussion was Google's solar panels, which you considered would give pay back in 100 years. If I showed you a study for the hottest place on Earth, it would be meaningless, as it is the Google offices' locations what matter. Those studies are in hand of Google, not mine.

[duartemolha]

I petty ignorance... stop watching tv and travel a bit... see the world and the effects global warming are already causing. We have to save the world and now is the time to do it. The good thing about ignorance is that it can be solved. Do something about yours.

[ezules]

Let's say you're right, can you please tell me what is your receipt for peak oil? Aren't renewable energy sources (wind, geothermic, solar -not only fv-, biomasses, natural gasses from non-food sources) the only way to save our "ACTUAL" style of life that permits 6 bilion people to live on this planet?

If we don't invest in research and development NOW, how do you think we can survive the end of cheap oil?

[Please respect yourself and don't say a ridiculous think as Hydrogen...]

[maan100283]

The paradox is that the docu you're referring to is a swindle itself. Remember the solar radiation vs temperature graph, it only goes as far as the 1980s. Why did they do that, the data was available at that time!

What the data since the 80s shows is that while the sun's radiation levels out, the temperature goes up, up and up... And that would disprove the radiation theory the program tries to put forward, and only fits with manmade global warming.

[maan100283]

Oh, was meant as a reply to marjan15. Anyways, you can check the graph for yourself if you do a google image search with: max planck solar research climate.gif

[marjan15]

Last seven years global troposphere temperature is dropping. This might be called global cooling. ( friendsofscience org )

[maan100283]

Your quoting a source that's funded by oil companies ( sourcewatch org/index.php ?title=Friends_of_Science ) and that is using  uncorrected UAH MSU satellite data. One of the researchers of that project, Roy Spencer, was on Earth: The Climate Wars (eps 2), telling that the data was faulty. The satellites orbit was not correctly calculated, when corrected the data is the same as ground measurements. You can look up the really interesting serie at the pirate bay (search climate wars)

[marjan15]

The source of measurements is MSU satellite [ATMOS UAH, MSFC NASA] which clearly shows temperature drop in last couple of years. You can do as many corrections as you want on those measurements, but you can not deny obvious temperature drop.

[maan100283]

Strange you cite UAH data, since on their website they say their satellite data confirms global warming and actions should be taken to decrease CO2 output: google uah News climatebackground

[marjan15]

The graphs are very clear about global temperature. Why is it so hard to believe for most of people that global temperature is dropping last couple of years?

[maan100283]

"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."

If the graph is so clear, why aren't even the authors of the graph convinced?

If you have any degree in science you know that figures themself mean nothing unless you know how they came about, how they fit in the rest and what they tell in the big picture. Satellites' raw data tells nothing if you didn't calculate the effects of friction on the satellite. That's what happened at UAH. Google dn11660, it is all about this graph.

[marjan15]

According to some there will always be something wrong with measurements that shows temperature drop, even if it's the most precise satellite measurements humanity ever built.

[Al Gore, hockey stick graphs, CO2 causing GW, Kyoto...] It's becoming dogmatic religion this GW hype. It's not science anymore, it's politics thanks to Al Gore and people alike.

[kaduisaui]

donkey

[NoodlePowa]

DOCTORATE SCHMIDT XD

[NoodlePowa]

Heck yeah. Google rocks.

[BySplaindert]

Septimo :D

[pontiacbonny]

Great!