Bloomberg:
Apple Inc. will build an additional 200 megawatts of solar power in China and push suppliers to make similar commitments, as the maker of the iPad and Apple Watch seeks to offset its global-warming emissions in the world’s most polluting country.
The solar investment comes atop two previously announced solar farms in southern China that have now been completed, producing a combined 40 megawatts of power, Apple said in a statement Wednesday. The company will also partner with suppliers, including iPhone maker Foxconn Technology Group, on an additional 2 gigawatts of solar, wind and hydropower projects.
“Climate change is one of the great challenges of our time, and the time for action is now,” Apple Chief Executive Officer Tim Cook said. “We believe passionately in leaving the world better than we found it and hope that many other suppliers, partners and other companies join us in this important effort.”
It’s things like this that make me such a fan of Tim Cook and of Apple.
“The company will also partner with suppliers, including iPhone maker Foxconn Technology Group, on an additional 2 gigawatts of solar, wind and hydropower projects.”
So they’ll have enough power for a flying DeLorean?
If Apple was serious about “global warming emissions”, these would be nuclear power plants.
Solar, and especially wind don’t do crap for that.
(Wind? Every windmill has a giant concrete base.
Concrete production is an enormous source of CO2 – and those windmills need replacement far too often.
Nuclear power, on the other hand, is nice and clean and plants last for decades on end.
This is posing for hippies, not actual environmentalism; actual environmentalism isn’t radiophobic, but hippies are.)
If you mean a new, modern, safe molten salt reactor, then I’m all for it… If you mean a dangerous and potential weapons building, 10K year+++ contamination hazard then maybe check this out…
Liquid Fluoride Thorium Reactors (LFTR): Energy for the Future?
LFTRs in 5 minutes – Thorium Reactors
No Fukushima, Three Mile or Chernobyl here. Also much less issue with weapons grade material.