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iOS 17 Includes 'Grid Forecast' Feature to Let You Know When 'Cleaner' Energy is Available
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Are you incapable of reading?
This isn’t about you charging your iPhone at a specific time. Most of the times you charge your iPhone because you must, however running your dishwasher or washing machine is different and having it built into the home app means you can run automations in the future based on that.
Nothing like the smell of virtue signaling in the morning.
You need to think of the world as though you are not the only person on the planet. One device, multiplied by millions.
Could you please elaborate? I'm curious about your perspective and what it's based on.
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What I'm learning from this thread and the one about USB-C cases for Airpods is how few people actually understand and care about environmental issues beyond their broad utility as a cudgel.
I look forward to the time society stops using dead dinosaur goop for power. So antiquated.
Side note: it’s comical how militant people get AGAINST little things like this. If you don’t like it, fine. Most of us do appreciate these things. It says a lot about people’s personality how frothing at the mouth angry they get for no good reason.
Side note: it’s comical how militant people get AGAINST little things like this. If you don’t like it, fine. Most of us do appreciate these things. It says a lot about people’s personality how frothing at the mouth angry they get for no good reason.
Don't think this feature will be available outside US anytime in the near future
One trip on Timmy's private jet will wipe this out for all iphone users
Exactly this.
I've always wondered why those who think greenhouse gases are good don't just put their lips around a car exhaust to prove it to us.
This is not BS. It’s surprising to see how people are stuck in their ways and don’t want to be confronted with the negative impact of their behaviour.
If everyone would take this information into account, it would have enough impact to shut down entire power plants during rush hours. How hard is that to understand?
Everything is a trade-off in this world. Apple has made it mandatory for Tim to fly private for security and efficiency purposes.
You can debate this, but it’s definitely true Apple stock would tank if something happened to Tim.
What you can’t do is use this as an excuse to not take any action yourself.
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Not quite sure how that changes anything... It's a positive step in the right direction. If we all throw our arms in the air and start howling at the moon because 'Timmy', as CEO of one of the largest companies on the planet, needs to be somewhere fast, is compared to you charging your phone, we're all going to hell in a handbasket. An organically grown, handwoven one of course.
I wonder if this feature works for India and China, by far the 2 biggest polluters on the planet while they are excluded from ESG.
That’s not how the feature works. There is no need to zoom in to individual houses. There is only one power grid and it’s the collective supply/demand, greenhouse emission and weather data for the entire region that is aggregated here. You will not get a different icon than your neighbour.
What? We all get the same power as our neighbours. You just pay more or less depending on the provider and how they (green or not green) produce the electricity they put onto that single net.
I didn’t mean to send the first paragraph (must have been still in my previous quote from yesterday) after it hit me that we are talking about electricity and not heat here 😅
Exactly. Once it’s on the grid it’s dispatched based on a variety of factors. Even if you pay for green energy you don’t necessarily get it; just the producer gets paid extra when on the grid.
I have dynamic pricing and I love it. Charge my home battery when it is cheap overnight and export from my solar panels for more than I pay!