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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Adam Vaughan

Google Q&A: how green can the internet be?

An employee rides her bike past Google's Zurich office
An employee rides her bike past Google's Zurich office. Photograph: Christian Hartmann/Reuters

This Thursday is your chance to ask Google where it stands on green issues. At 4pm, Dan Reicher, the web giant's director of climate change and energy, will be online for a live web chat with readers on Google's environmental strategy, the urgency of acting on climate change and the role technology can play.

Do you want to know more about Google's innovative ideas for reducing its carbon footprint, such as floating data centres powered by wave energy? How it hopes to help consumers cut their emissions through its Powermeter software? Or, like the Guardian's Bobbie Johnson, are you interested in hearing more about how much energy — and carbon — Google is responsible for?

Dan also recently judged entries to the Manchester Report, the Guardian's search for 20 ideas to save the world from dangerous climate change. So if you want to know what he thinks about enhanced geothermal systems or concentrated solar power in the world's deserts, just ask.

Post your questions below to get the ball rolling - and pop back here at 4pm GMT on Thursday to see what Dan has to say.

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