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Apple Shares More Details on iOS 16.1 Clean Energy Charging Feature
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Nice! Apple should be paying you for charing your iPhone then. Green Energy Finest!
I’m going to turn it on, but I’m also very angry about it.
I’m trying to play both sides of this comment section.
I’m trying to play both sides of this comment section.
Have you ever considered running for office?
I’d love to see the science that actually justifies this. How about setting this up on all those eco friendly electric vehicles that people think don’t use “dirty energy”. They just trade gas for the coal at our parent plants.
Bring back nuclear power plants and let’s move on with real sustainable power that’s safer and less polluting!
Bring back nuclear power plants and let’s move on with real sustainable power that’s safer and less polluting!
Virtue signaling feature at its finest. Wait until it's no longer optional in IOS20. "You're charging it wrong"
Mine! All mine!!! Find your own celestial fusion source!
It really depends on where you live but in CA only 3% of our power usage comes from coal.
2021 Total System Electric Generation
Agree. This seems to require a huge amount of backend infrastructure to make a truly negligible change.
My quick calculation shows that charging an iPhone battery requires about 0.015kWh of energy (assuming about 75% efficiency). Assuming you have to charge your phone once a day, this is effectively way less than one percent of most People's daily usage. And yet the number of engineers that had to be fed in order to add this so-called feature probably will not ever recoup the energy deferment (because they're just shifting the charge time)
maybe I'm missing something, but this doesn't do anything about energy production - it just shifts around consumption. So if e.g. 30% of energy is from renewables at a specific time of day and 70% is not, everyone starts charging their phones and overall consumption goes up - that additional consumption has to come from non-renewables. That is assuming that the energy provider prioritizes renewable energy, i.e. renewable fraction is always at the max that can be supplied. So your phone is charged from renewables while now your TV uses non-renewable.
Feature seems impractical for such a low-energy device. What customers were asking for this?
And by using a computer to post this gibberish, you're helping all those happening, right?
Move into the woods and cut communication to the outside then, bye.
My PC consumes 400W 12hr/day, TV 300W 6hr/day, home LED lightings 300W 8hr/day, electric car 8000W 4hr/day, oven 6000W 0.5hr/day, refrigerator compressor 200W 4hr/day, home server 100W 24/7. Even my WiFi router consumes 20W for 24/7. 20W 1hr/day by iPhone charger is too small to save carbon footprint.
Update: I use 1,000kWh / month. iPhone charger takes 20W x 30 days x 1 hr = 0.6kWh. 0.06% total of my house electric bill.
Update: I use 1,000kWh / month. iPhone charger takes 20W x 30 days x 1 hr = 0.6kWh. 0.06% total of my house electric bill.
Turned it off. I like charging dirty
Apple should enable this on Tim’s private jet! 🛩️
I agree, I want my phone charged when I plug it in , do not like others deciding for me
It’s the other way around. The benefit is minimal but the risks are great. It’s not like you’re going to have you your phone plugged in the whole day. This feature is just plain stupid, prove me wrong.
Agree. I didn’t know who thought this was a good idea. It seems really rather pointless and to turn it on from default speaks a lot about how they are running the company. Don’t worry though, I’m pretty sure there will be a lot of reports about phones taking hours to charge which will make Apple disable this
I'm going to leave it on....going commando and take one for the team.