Because their goals weren't ambitious enough

That would be a huge deal for climate. More and more electric utilities would switch over to this cleaner source over time. By 2050, the Google engineers' modeling suggested, US carbon-dioxide emissions would be 55 percent lower than what we're currently on pace for.

But they also found that this new technology would still be adopted too slowly to avert significant global warming…

Why Google halted its research into renewable energy
The company realized its aim to make solar cheaper than coal wasn’t ambitious enough.

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