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Apple Moving to 100% Renewable Energy in Singapore, Confirms New Retail Store

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Apple today announced a deal to move all of its operations in Singapore to 100 percent renewable energy, working with partner Sunseap Group to take advantage of rooftops in the densely populated city-state for solar power generation, reports Reuters.
Starting in January, solar energy developer Sunseap Group will provide Apple with 100 percent renewable electricity from its portfolio of solar energy systems built atop more than 800 buildings in Singapore.

The deal will make Apple the first company in Singapore to run exclusively on renewable energy and marks a significant step in its bid to power 100 percent of its facilities and operations worldwide with clean fuel.
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The Sunseap project, made possible through financing from Apple, will generate a total of 50 megawatts of solar power from rooftops, with approximately 33 megawatts going to Apple and the remainder being used for other customers including public housing.

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As part of today's announcement, Apple also confirmed it is working toward opening its first retail store in Singapore, although it did not provide a timeframe for the store's opening.

Word of an Apple store in Singapore surfaced last month when fitness chain Pure Fitness announced its location in the Knightsbridge shopping center will be closing next month to make way for an Apple store planned to open in late 2016. Four other stores in the center are also moving out to help make room for Apple. The company began hiring for one or more retail stores in Singapore late last week.

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I hope it's the thinnest, lightest renewable energy ever. But if it isn't, it might be by the next time it's renewed.
 
This seems like a very good idea. Why not do that in places like chicago or new york where we have similar dense locations with significant buildings where this could be done? Not only with the roof tops, but I am aware of additional technologies that allow you to draw energy from the windows without obstructing the view (a film over the window pushes the light to the edge where the cells convert to electricity).
 
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I am still amazed why it took so long for Singapore to get an official Apple Store, it's a shoppers paradise, later even more.
Lots of tourists visit Singapore each year, so a good move.
One of the reasons it took so long is maybe the fact it is hard to get a good spot in Singapore, this is right on Orchard road, the main shopping area.
Guess it's going to be crowded like hell, hope I can be there when it opens.
 
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This seems like a very good idea. Why not do that in places like chicago or new york where we have similar dense locations with significant buildings where this could be done? Not only with the roof tops, but I am aware of additional technologies that allow you to draw energy from the windows without obstructing the view (a film over the window pushes the light to the edge where the cells convert to electricity).
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First of all, solar panels are being put up all over the place. Though the farther you get from the equator the less solar power will get produced by the same solar panel. So economics aren't as good as compared to in Singapore. But that doesn't mean that there aren't lots of solar panels on roofs in Chicago and New York. You just can't see them since they are on the roof. But they won't ever be everywhere. Many rooftops in older places are (a) old and need to be repaired relatively soon which means taking off the panels to do the repair and (b) already used by things like HVAC systems and water towers.

Regular good old solar PV panels are still pretty expensive. The new things about putting films on windows are probably super expensive compared to the electricity they produce. Also, Windows are placed vertically. Solar panels work best when flat or slightly angled so the Sun's rays hit it straight on. Windows are just facing the wrong way. And anyway, there is enough roof space to go around.

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Your profile picture reveals a lot about your ability to understand anything but I don't want to give up on people even if I'm aware that it's rather pointless to try to explain it to you.

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Your profile picture reveals a lot about your ability to understand anything but I don't want to give up on people even if I'm aware that it's rather pointless to try to explain it to you.

Most websites submit analytics data to Google. Macrumors does it too. Even if you are not one of Google's customers you definitely are a product that Google sells to their advertising partners. You provide Google the information to better sell ads. You tell Google all the time which sites you like. For example Google knows that you visit the the Trump website and automatically will display you ads for stuff that stupid people like to buy. So yes, you are paying Google even if it is with your sorry a**.
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More pathetic nonsense. Are you so thick that you can't understand how Google has never once taken a single cent from me? They are free to sell my info to others and make money that way, but they have never, and will never, get a penny from me, so, therefore, it is FREE you blockhead.
 
Overtime I see pictures like this I can't help but be disgusted at the building design of those Chinese tower flats. They are such an eyesore, it's like going back in time to the USSR in 1978.
 
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