Google To Go Nuclear

For about 10 seconds I believed this. Given their power needs it would be a reasonable move to get into power generation technology, and nuclear would be the nerd's choice.

<i>Nuclear is an obvious next step for the company.</i><p>An early start on April Fools day?

Google replies: <a href="http://blog.google.org/2010/03/gooey-googley-energy.html" rel="nofollow">http://blog.google.org/2010/03/gooey-googley-energy.html</a>

What strange article. I find it reasonable that Google might want to experiment with small nuclear reactors. Then the author goes off into imagination land suggesting that Google might colonize and become and independent nuclear armed nation which would need Mutually Assured Destruction against China. Seriously strange.

Google has been considering going nuclear since at least 2006:<p>"Should Google Go Nuclear? Clean, cheap, nuclear power (no, really)" <a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#" rel="nofollow">http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1996321846673788606#</a><p>Granted, other than the title they've chosen for the video, there isn't a focus in this video on Google actually adopting Nuclear energy. But they were clearly trying to start changing the perception of nuclear energy as far back as 2006.

<i>To be clear, most of this is speculation. All we’ve confirmed is that Google has acquired a company with a new enrichment process and that they have begun researching small, nuclear portable generators.</i>