It must feel really good

To be a slightly geeky, good-hearted billionaire with foresight, brains, and enough money to replace an outdated and foot-dragging industry.

From Green Wombat:

Google announced Tuesday it will spend hundreds of millions of dollars developing new solar and wind technologies while investing in green tech startups. The goal, according to Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page: Send the fossil fuel industry to the coal bin of history by making renewable energy cheaper than coal, a main culprit in the global warming crisis.

“Assuming we can develop this, we want to deploy it as broadly as possible," said Brin during a conference call. “Which means we’ll license the technology or put it in place ourselves.”