That’s awesome. Almost all battery devices can work this way
Use clean energy charging on your iPhone
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#12“Your iPhone doesn't send any of the location information that it uses for this feature to Apple.” I’m actually curious how this is possible. Does it download a carbon efficiency database for the detected region? Otherwise, how do you know the schedule for the best times? Is the database shipped with iOS? How granular is it?
You can buy green energy on the financial market, just as you can buy gold on it
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#13This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
Oh I don't know. How many iPhones are active in the world right now? 500 million, conservatively speaking? That's a not insignificant amount.
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#14Toggle on virtue signaling.
At Apple's scale the effort building this feature is certainly worth the co2 impact. edit: impact would be approx. the same as powering 300k US homes to only use clean energy.
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#15Appliances that actually use energy should have this. I'd love to be able to put a wet load of laundry into my drier and press "make sure it's dry by tomorrow morning".
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#16This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
A lot of little things can be big
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#17This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
I should bring up that top opening chest fridges are actually pretty great for energy efficiency! https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI The amount of electricity needed is so small that it might even be comparable (mobile so i haven't calculated yet)
Absolutely terrible for usability though, which is why no one has one in their kitchen.
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#18Appliances that actually use energy should have this. I'd love to be able to put a wet load of laundry into my drier and press "make sure it's dry by tomorrow morning".
https://www.energystar.gov/products/smart_home_tips/about_pr...
That kind of thing already exists.
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#19This is a pointless stunt. A refrigerator will use 10 to 20 times the electricity of phone that is going at 100% 24 hours a day. The impact of this is ultimately nothing.
Depends. Maybe they start with phones, go to ipads, macs. As usage of this feature increases and development increases the move this feature to more device types.
Personal electronics are still just a small fraction of all the energy humans use.
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#20Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should bring up that top opening chest fridges are actually pretty great for energy efficiency! https://youtu.be/CGAhWgkKlHI The amount of electricity needed is so small that it might even be comparable (mobile so i haven't calculated yet)
Absolutely terrible for usability though, which is why no one has one in their kitchen.
But lots of people have deep refrigerators, which cause exactly the same usability problem ("most of the stuff in the fridge cannot be accessed, because the stuff between it and the door blocks it").