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Google likes to tout Enhanced Geothermal Systems (EGS) as "the sleeping giant" of clean power. The United States Geological Survey (USGS), it seems, would wholeheartedly agree.

This week, USGS scientists released the agency’s first assessment in more than 30 years of the electric power generation potential of the nation’s geothermal resource.

What'd they find?

If developed, geothermal could generate 556,890 MW of electricity in the United States. That’s more than 200 times the installed geothermal capacity in the nation today, which stands at 2,500 MW.

From Google Sky to Google Earth, the search giant has changed the way we see the world.

And now Google is putting climate change smack dab in the center of its maps of the planet.

Hallelujah!

This is worth a look. Google has put a slew of hybrids and plug-ins to the test with real drivers on real roads. And it's uploading the results right now, straight from each car’s laptop and wireless data card to this website, using a home-grown methodology.

The winner so far?

Now that Google has helped to deliver $1 a watt solar panels from Nanosolar, how do you top that?

Answer: E-Solar's thermal power plant.

Google is investing big in this Pasadena-based solar pioneer, and here's why.

E-Solar has developed a “market disrupting” solar thermal power plant technology that can serve the renewable energy needs of the big utilities.