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> This also means that every chip Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral. How is that even possible?
by yodsanklai 5y ago
> This also means that every chip Apple creates, from design to manufacturing, will be 100 percent carbon neutral.
How is that even possible?
- bee_rider 5y agoI guess it must be net, right? So maybe carbon offsets or providing more green energy than they consume, to the grid?
- trenchgun 5y agoWith offsets.
- robocat 5y agoThere are two kinds of offsets: 1. existing offsets where you buy them but there is no net offset creation, 2. newly created offsets where your purchase makes a net difference. An example of (1) could be buying an existing forest that wasn’t going to be felled. An example of (2) could be converting a coal electricity plant to capture CO2 instead of shutting the plant down. A quick skim of the Apple marketing blurb at least implies they are trying to create new offsets e.g. “Over 80 percent of the renewable energy that Apple sources comes from projects that Apple created”, and “Apple is supporting the development of the first-ever direct carbon-free aluminium smelting process through investments and collaboration with two of its aluminium suppliers.” — https://www.apple.com/nz/newsroom/2020/07/apple-commits-to-be-100-percent-carbon-neutral-for-its-supply-chain-and-products-by-2030/ https://www.apple.com/nz/newsroom/2020/07/apple-commits-to-b...
- supertrope 5y agoCollecting juicy tax credits for installing solar power. Carbon credits.
- strobe 5y agolikely they not but is possible to say that because they buying a Carbon offsets or similar products to make it 100 neutral https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_offset (obviously apple can afford that)