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T-Mobile Commits To 100 Percent Renewable Electricity By 2021 (cnbc.com)
T-Mobile said on Monday that it will move to 100 percent renewable electricity by the year 2021. It had also "finalized a contract for wind power from the Solomon Forks Wind Project in Kansas," reports CNBC. "Power generation there is due to begin at the beginning of 2019, and will supplement the energy T-Mobile receives from the Red Dirt Wind Power Project in Oklahoma." From the report: John Legere, T-Mobile's president and CEO, said moving to renewable energy was the right thing to do and smart business. "We expect to cut T-Mobile's energy costs by around $100 million in the next 15 years thanks to this move," he added. T-Mobile has also joined the RE100, a group of global businesses committed to renewable power. Other members of the RE100 include Apple, Facebook and Google.
Wake me up when the energy return from a wind turbine or solar panel is greater than the cost to fab the silicon, make the blades, smelt the metal, and so on. Solar is great for off-grid applications, but realistically, it isn't a net energy gain, especially factoring in the cost for the entire production line, from mining the rare earths, transporting the metals to the smelter, the raw materials to the fab, and so on. Especially transportation costs.
...solar panels on BOTH stores!
Renewable energy is the new perpetual motion.
You've been had. haha.