Google’s secretive innovation unit Google X is working on a green energy project.
The unit, overseen by Astro Teller and responsible for Google Glass among other projects, describes its programs as “moonshots.”
Teller said, “The thing that excites me the most is not any one of those moonshots — it is not Google Glass, it is not the Self Driving Car … It’s if you can do it over and over again.”
Of his engineers, “I have this incredible collection of Peter Pans with Ph.D.’s all kind of running amok in this very productive, sort of loosely organized way.”
Google is working with Makani Power, the wind-power company it recently acquired, on the project, which uses wind turbines to generate electricity.