Comments on: Greenpeace Admits Using ‘Dirty’ Power

By: data center planning

data center planning — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 06:59:09 +0000

Great stuff, Just forwarded this on to a coworker who read up on this and she took me to eat after I showed her this site. So, appreciate it!!

By: data center

data center — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 04:47:24 +0000

Yet another awesome post, always great to read your website! Keep at it!

By: Jason Brown

Jason Brown — Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:48:29 +0000

I disagree with Greenpeace on many things, but this criticism is silly.

RECs represent the delivery of renewable energy to the grid. They are recommended as a way for people and organizations to balance out the emissions generated from their electricity use by the Union of Concerned Scientists, EDF and National Resources Defense Council.

You might consider me biased (I work for a company in the REC market) but I think RECs are an excellent way for organizations to lower their environmental impact and accelerate the development of a renewable energy economy. Greenpeace should be proud that their data centers use them, and has nothing to apologize for.

By: Mekhong Kurt

Mekhong Kurt — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 06:45:21 +0000

While I’m often uncomfortable with Greenpeace’s militancy — which is the major reason I’ve never joined — I will defend them, to a degree, in this instance.

If it is important for Greenpeace to have a physical presence in a given location, they will need utilities. If those utilities (not just electricity, but water as well, which may come from dams and the like) involve the use of “dirty power,” then the decision-makers in Greenpeace are going to have to decide which trumps in that particular case: the need to be present, or standing by clean power — even if it means passing up a chance to establish a physical presence?

Sometimes they’ll decide the need for a presence overrides the fact that their presence will be powered by dirty power. And sometimes people will agree with them.

Even saints use sinners to get a job done. (Not that anyone at Greenpeace is a *saint,* mind you!)

By: John Pagunsan

John Pagunsan — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 21:29:57 +0000

Oh my goodness -_- how can they be advocates of living green when they themselves aren’t green =( tsk tsk