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Samsung Plans To Use 100% Renewable Energy by 2020 (fortune.com)

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the marching-forward dept.

Samsung said this week it plans to transition to entirely renewable energy in its offices, factories, and operational facilities in the United States, China, and Europe by 2020. From a report: The company has also joined the World Wildlife Fund's Renewable Energy Buyers' Principles and the Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewables Center. In its home in Korea, Samsung plans to install 42,000 meters of solar panels at its headquarters, and will continue to add approximately 21,000 meters of solar arrays and geothermal power generation facilities beginning in 2019 at its satellite campuses in Pyeongtaek and Hwaseong.

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  1. 42K meters? by CrimsonAvenger · · Score: 2

    Wow, that's a lot! 42 km of solar panels.

    Of course, a lot depends on how WIDE that 42 km of solar panels it is....

    In other words, would it be too much to ask the editors to actually, you know, edit?

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    1. Re:42K meters? by Ol+Olsoc · · Score: 2

      Wow, that's a lot! 42 km of solar panels.

      Of course, a lot depends on how WIDE that 42 km of solar panels it is....

      In other words, would it be too much to ask the editors to actually, you know, edit?

      Remember they are editors, not the people writing the story. The writer, one Emily Price, wrote that they were using 42,000 meters of solar panels.

      You have to go back to the actual announcement from Samsung to see the itty bitty superscript 2 next to the meters https://news.samsung.com/globa...

      See what you made me do though? You made me stand up for the editors at Slashdot. I need a drink.

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  2. Why not? by Hallux-F-Sinister · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Samsung is leading the way in renewables... like, for example, when it recycles Appleâ(TM)s designerâ(TM)s ideas! (Come to think of it, didnâ(TM)t Apple also announce they were doing this... earlier?) Do fresh ideas contribute to carbon pollution or something? Remember the side by side photo of the iPhone 3g and the thing Samsung made, that was, IIRC, the same size, shape, and general appearance, but with a rounded-rectangle-shaped home button, instead of a round one? Like that.

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    1. Re:Why not? by Anubis+IV · · Score: 3, Informative

      Apple didn’t just announce it. They completed the transition to 100% renewable energy earlier this year, and now they’re forcing their suppliers—Samsung included—to do the same as well as a condition for retaining their contracts with Apple.

      Talk is cheap, literally. I hope Samsung does as they say they will, but they say a lot of things (like claiming innocence as yet another of their chiefs is indicted of bribing government officials), so I’ll wait for action before believing them.

    2. Re:Why not? by atomicalgebra · · Score: 3, Interesting

      Except Apple is not 100% renewable. Purchasing renewable credits is not the same thing as being 100% renewable. The goal of course is to be 100% clean which includes nuclear energy. Samsung uses a lot of nuclear energy being in South Korea.

    3. Re:Why not? by triffid_98 · · Score: 2

      Nuclear energy is pretty much 100% renewable if you do it with breeder reactors vs light water. I mean, it "uses" water by turning it into steam, which then gathers in the atmosphere as lets say..."a cloud"...and precipitates back into the ground as "rain" so unless your local area is lacking water I don't see the major problem other than South Korea (Samsung is located here) having the exact same (byproduct of the process) weapons grade uranium that North Korea already has. What is the downside?