"sheets of metal slamming" - it's probably the FBI trying to break into the facility ;)
Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
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Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#22"One reason why Apple could be working at night is that electricity is cheaper then" Is the author serious?
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Doesn't California also have some the most expensive electricity in the US?
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Doesn't California also have some the most expensive electricity in the US?
If only Apple could afford their PG&E bill.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Doesn't California also have some the most expensive electricity in the US?
Residential rates appear to be reasonably high (9th highest if I read this right: http://www.eia.gov/electricity/state/) but (a) presumably they're not exactly smelting aluminum and (b) don't they have a giant money pit that Tim Cook dives in Scrooge McDuck-style.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#25"One reason why Apple could be working at night is that electricity is cheaper then" Is the author serious?
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Yes. Sure, we all know that electricity is cheaper at night, but would it make overall sense for the engineers to do their work at night for this reason?
First, they don't have to use the energy when they draw it from the grid. Charge an EV at night and test it all day.
Second, it only costs a couple bucks to charge an EV car even at peak rates. Surely the engineer's time and schedule is more important.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#26Well went thru the links and not one sound clip I heard of this noise - which I find equally just as odd, lots reports of the noise and clips of people getting there slot of TV fame, but not one link to the actual noise - least what I gleaned thru. So who knows, just equally as odd no recordings I could find of this noise, though there must be some out there somewhere I'd imagine if it is that much of an issue.
Given the ubiquity of sophisticated cell phones and other recording equipment, it's best to regard the lack of a recording as strong evidence that it does not exist. Just as if multiple people claimed the Loch Ness Monster had surfaced in San Francisco Bay but somehow there were no photographs of it.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#27"One reason why Apple could be working at night is that electricity is cheaper then" Is the author serious?
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Why should apple care about that? The cost of salary utterly dwarfs energy cost so much that even thinking about the slightly cheaper rates at night is a joke.
Apple is not a process manufacturer where energy is a large part of the budget.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#28Apple is just generating some buzz.
Did you read the article? It's not a "buzz," it's a "loud hum."
:P
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you? http://www.pge.com/en/mybusiness/rates/tvp/toupricing.page?W... Instead of a single flat rate for energy use, time-of-use rate plans are higher when electric demand is higher. This means when you use energy is just as important as how much you use. Winter has two rate periods: off-peak and partial-peak. Summer has three: off-peak, partial-peak and peak. During peak periods, defined as weekdays from noon to 6…
Why should apple care about that? The cost of salary utterly dwarfs energy cost so much that even thinking about the slightly cheaper rates at night is a joke. Apple is not a process manufacturer where energy is a large part of the budget.
Unless they're melting their own aluminum. =)
Note the article doesn't really mention electric-type humming.
One neighbor described the sounds he hears at night as "sheets of metal slamming, clanking, almost a grinding sound."
This idea they're running large amounts of electricity to charge EVs seems far-fetched. And if a charger is making that much noise to wake the neighbors then, well, they have larger technology issues to handle.
Also: when you're a large industrial electricity consumer and you pull megawatts for your work, the utility usually wants you to run at night so you don't brown out the grid for everyone else during the day. Just another data point.
Re: Apple silent on mysterious noises from Sunnyvale complex
#30Quite obvious.
The sound and the apple car is just them trying to get a DeLorean to travel back in time. That way they can get Steve Jobs back.