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Apple Announces $300 Million China Clean Energy Fund (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Bloomberg: The iPhone maker said it's creating the fund to boost the use of renewable energy in its supply chain, which is primarily spread across regions in China. The company and 10 of its key suppliers and manufacturing partners, including Corning Inc., Pegatron Corp., Wistron Corp. and Luxshare Precision Industry Co., will contribute to the fund over the next four years, the Cupertino, California-based company said Thursday in a statement. The money will go toward developing projects totaling a gigawatt of renewable energy in China, Apple said. In 2015, Apple committed to using clean energy in its supply chain and has said it hopes to create 4 gigawatts of renewable energy globally by 2020, an increase from a goal of 3 gigawatts announced earlier this year.
HAI HAI
What if Apple stopped producing gizmos and the factory's no longer ran and we all went back to talking in person.
Apple is just bribing someone. Nothing to see here.
Apple sells far more to the west esp America. Yet rather than invest in western nations, or 3rd world nations, they invest in China, while Chinese gov pushes coal.
I prefer the "u" in honour as it seems to be missing these days.
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Oooohhhhhhhh. I always wondered what Apple did for money.
Sure they will fake some data to say they uses the money as intended, but they wont actually do it!
Apple sells far more to the west esp America. Yet rather than invest in western nations
Apple actually has factories in the U.S. producing computers. In fact it plans to contribute some 350 billion dollars to the U.S. over five years.
Compare that to whoever made whatever you are typing on. They treated Chinese's workers a lot worse than Apple. They probably will not contribute 1/100th of what Apple will to the American economy just this year...
You claims are laughable and your lack of self-awareness beyond belief.
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More fucking ignorance from the king of ignorance WindBourne. China is limiting coal, it's certainly not pushing it except maybe in your dreams.
I can't help but wonder why. Usually businesses make the government build infrastructure for them on the taxpayer's dime. Why would Apple spend their own money? Sorry, but you're not going to convince me it's out of the goodness of their heart. And that's not because I hate Apple (I do, but that's because I keep having to buy their overpriced products for my kid's birthdays and X-Mas'), it's because no corporation spends money they don't have to.
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America already uses far more coal for electricity per person than China does.
Chinese coal plants produced 3,573 MT of CO2 in 2017
American coal plants produced 1,056 MT of CO2 in 2017
China has more than 4 times the population.
Then there is President Trump trying to actually push coal. As opposed to your lies about China.
Aren't their products made in Brazil's Foxconn factory, not China?
yet you spend money you dont have to...
The astounding numbers go against the trend that has been happening throughout the year in China, where dangerously high pollution levels have forced the closure of hundreds of coal mines and a curtailment of steel mill output.
Examples of China's domestic aversion to coal include:
Two days ago Taiyuan, the capital of China’s northern province of Shanxi, which is known for its coal production, banned the sale, transport and use of most coal as it tries to cut air pollution
In May Shanxi province decided to suspend or hold back the development of mines until 2020, which effectively will take out of the market about of 120 million tonnes of the fossil fuel.
Also in May provincial authorities announced they will close 18 collieries and cut 17 million tonnes of coal capacity by the end of the year.
In January Beijing announced it plans to shut down 800 million tonnes of outdated coal capacity by 2020.
Yes, China is definitely pushing coal, into the dustbin of history.
Wow you truly are totally clueless about this aren't you.
How about people who use a lot more coal electricity than China? Is America pushing coal. Wait Trump actually is, for 'defense reasons'. LOL
Seems like a drop from the bucket eh?
https://www.dw.com/en/china-le...
https://www.independent.co.uk/...
China is also the world’s largest investor in renewable energy, according to a 2018 report from the U.S.-based Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). That’s in keeping with trends from past years.
China passed the United States in renewable energy investment in 2009 by a mere $14 billion; in the time since, that gap has increased dramatically. In 2017, more than half of global renewable energy investment (nearly $280 billion) came from China. To put that into context, for every $1 the United States put into renewable energy last year, China spent $3.
The world’s biggest coal consumer used 0.4 percent more coal in absolute terms in 2017 compared to a year ago, the bureau said in its annual National Social and Economic Development communique, without giving the value of total coal consumption. However, as a portion of total energy consumption, coal usage fell 1.6 percentage points to 60.4 percent last year, while clean energy, including natural gas and renewables, rose 1.3 percentage points to 20.8 percent from 2016, the communique showed.
As reported by everyone on the planet except WindBourne and "you"...
CoalSwarm
Aiqun Yu, an analyst with CoalSwarm, a think tank that tracks coal-fired electricity generation globally, said that in just the past two years, the Chinese government has essentially cancelled or suspended some 444 gigawatts of new coal-fired generation capacity. The program has been enforced rigorously, she said, and to the point that several completed coal plants have been barred from hooking up to the transmission grid, effectively placing them in mothball status. The policy has pushed down the amount of new coal capacity coming online from 60 gigawatts in 2015 to 34 gigawatts in 2017—the lowest number in more than a decade.
More windy lies yet again. Show some credible evidence that China is installing more coal than renewables. No one believes your lies anymore.
China is doesn't sell more coal plants than renewables. who told you that massive lie? And why do you repeat it knowing it's a lie?