Driving a Tesla or having a clean energy charging mode on an iPhone that is pulling electricity from coal powered plants does what now?
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iOS 16.1 Beta Adds Clean Energy Charging Option to iPhone
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TBH I don't know enough about this so called clean energy charging and no doubt you are right, I would need to dig into the detail more but I guess if nothing else, it helps to bring this to the forefront of peoples mind, and if that can help change the way in which people consider the environment in other areas, that surely is a good thing if they start to change their habits.
How exactly would increasing development cycles save the planet? Would apple stop manufacturing phones, bricks, cables? Would apple save energy by not making zoom calls?
It’s very interesting and would love to hear how this would have a nice meaningful downstream impact on the planet.
You know we’ve come far with phones (or tech in general) when this is what we complain about now lol.
It solves nothing when Apple sell non reparable products made by plastic like the AirPods, the chargers, etc etc etc; another gimmick for the fanatics believing Apple is helping the planet.....
Apple will be happy to recycle your AirPods, and any other Apple gear you have. 🤷
EXACTLY. So if I turn this option on and I plug in the cable it won’t charge until it “detects” carbon whatever the f is called?.
Cause if that’s the way is going to work. That is sooo dumb.
I like Apple but COME ON.
Sure, it’s called options. Turn it on, turn it off…you can do what suits you. Are you part of the crowd that belittles apple for not having enough options?
It's pure virtue signaling nonsense by Apple.
Just like making people buy chargers for iPhones is "saving the planet."
As if when Apple recycles something no environmental pollution is created, that’s greenwashing. Everything a human touches leaves a footprint. Tech recycling ain't green, specially Apples.
Good to know. Wonder how useful this feature will be in some countries.
Yeah. I pay $8/month for 100% clean energy. Does it take this into account as well as looking at my location to determine if I am at an office with on site solar for example?
Why is there virtue signaling about an extended release cycle when nobody can explain why this helps the environment to any significant degree with concrete information?
The amount of negativity about this clean energy charging option is appalling.
Well nothing if the electric supply for your Tesla is on a grid where the only option is coal powered plants. But if one has a supplier with options every bit helps I suppose.
Definitely. Different sources feed into the grid as they're able to depending on sun, wind, water flow. If one of those isn't delivering, they fill it in with fossil-fuel sources that can be spun up on demand like gas powered "peaker" plants. Other sources like nuclear are, I assume, a lot more consistently available.
From what I understand, here you can sign a contract that incentivizes your utility to buy from renewable sources -- but at the end of the day the grid is energized from a mix of sources and I don't know how much control they have over it moment to moment.
Historical trends, I'd guess? Curious about that myself. I'd imagine it depends on where you live. If you're in the region of a lot of solar panels and it's a bright day it might prefer day charging over night.
It seems like it would be pretty hard to coordinate when you need to charge your phone with when power is being drawn from the cleanest sources. This is where something like those Tesla PowerWalls would make a lot of sense: some way to bank clean power when it's available so you can use it whenever you feel like.
I'm sure there are people out there that this appeals to. But this is yet *another* example of our society spending time and effort to fix non-problems while we pander to an extremely small minority.
Here's how this conversation *should* go:
"I wonder if charging my iPhone has any impact on the environment..."
"Merely *purchasing* your iPhone had a much bigger impact on the environment than charging your phone ever will. Shut up and move on."
Seriously. We have much bigger fish to fry right now, Apple.
On the flip side, maybe Apple did the humanitarian thing here and invented a position to give a job to a poor college grad with student loans.
Here's how this conversation *should* go:
"I wonder if charging my iPhone has any impact on the environment..."
"Merely *purchasing* your iPhone had a much bigger impact on the environment than charging your phone ever will. Shut up and move on."
Seriously. We have much bigger fish to fry right now, Apple.
On the flip side, maybe Apple did the humanitarian thing here and invented a position to give a job to a poor college grad with student loans.
I think this thread is yet *another* example of people jumping to conclusions without data or understanding.
The small Minority of people who care about the various facets of the environment?
How do you reconcile trying to do good for the environment whilst manufacturing in the least harmful way?
The environment isn’t a big fish?
Maybe.
I wish would invest in nuclear in the interim. The cleanest non-renewable source of energy for the time being. We are way away from being able to rely on wind and solar…see Germany as a shining example.
Most likely, depends on your electric service provider… 👍🏻