
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
- technology@lemmy.ml
I’ll note that the article as originally published contains a typo; Ruth Porat is the CIO at Google, not the CEO.
Dooming your children to ecological collapse but whatever at least your share price goes up.
Duckers.
Share price doesn’t even go up.
Coal energy hasn’t been cost efficient in over a decade. Natural gas is barely keeping under wind and solar (both of which have been buoyed by the artificially high retail electricity prices produced by the gas cartels). Nuclear doesn’t break even for nearly a decade, due to the enormous upfront construction costs.
This isn’t a fiscal policy, it is a political strategy. Suck off Trump’s inside circle in order to win his endorsement for future government contracts.
Not her children. Our children.
I thought the ‘fantastic’ in the headline was meant thusly:
Blind people can’t see your screenshot
oh so they’ll stop using the same power grid as the rest of us?
No. Just make you pay to add fossil generation to support their use
And then claim that they’re running on green energy entirely because they paid someone money for a “credit”.
Fucking disgusting.
paywall bypass: https://archive.is/mdi9x
For anyone interested, Ecosia - the search engine that plants trees
Eat shit, google