by Jess Zimmerman. The current plan for the new Apple headquarters calls for 500,000 or more square feet of solar panels, generating at least 5MW of power. That could make it the biggest corporate solar panel installation in the U.S. — but Apple operations take so much power that this will just be supplemental. The proposed building, which would house 13,000 Apple employees, will run primarily on natural gas. The solar panels, which will cover the majority of the building's roof, are providing backup power. Five megawatts is enough to power a million AppleTVs (which I only just found out were a thing), but not enough to run the operations of the company that produces them. Still, it's a lot more than Google has managed! (They get 1.6MW of solar. Suck it, Google.) And between the giant solar installation and having its primary power facility on campus, Apple has almost divorced itself from the normal electrical grid, which is pretty cool.
Follow this link:
Apple HQ could have the country’s biggest solar installation, and it still won’t be enough
More on SKCEA.org:
- BP’s U.S. Gulf project exempted from enviro analysis
U.S. regulators exempted BP Plc from a detailed environmental review of the exploration project that ultimately resulted in the deadly Gulf of Mexico explosion and subsequent oil spill, documents show. The Minerals Management Service granted BP's project a "categorical exclusion"... - What Robert Byrd’s death means for the climate bill
by Jonathan Hiskes. Sen. Robert Byrd (D-W.Va.), who died early this morning at the age of 92, fought for most of his legendary career to keep coal mining at the center of West Virginia's economy. But in the last few months of his life, he hinted at a remarkable change of heart, ... - Almonds May Lower Risks of Type 2 Diabetes and Heart Disease
There are estimated to be 20 million people in the United States with either prediabetes or type 2 diabetes by the year 2020. Diabetes is one of the leading causes of heart disease, and half of all people with diabetes die from cardiovascular complications. A previous study has f... - Sen. Jim Inhofe hates planet, loves dictators
by Jess Zimmerman. Okay, sit down for this one, because it’s just twisted. Jim Inhofe, the Oklahoma senator who called global warming “the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people” and who was most recently seen trying to castrate the EPA , is prac... - Enceladus Plume
Enceladus has an exotic watery plume spewing out of it. Cassini passed Enceladus first on March 27, coming within about 46 miles of the moon's surface. The encounter was primarily designed for Cassini's ion and neutral mass spectrometer, which tasted the composition of Enceladus'...
No comments yet.
by Jess Zimmerman. The current plan for the new Apple headquarters calls for 500,000 or more square feet of solar panels, generating at least 5MW of power. That could make it the biggest corporate solar panel installation in the U.S. — but Apple operations take so much power that this will just be supplemental. The proposed building, which would house 13,000 Apple employees, will run primarily on natural gas. The solar panels, which will cover the majority of the building's roof, are providing backup power. Five megawatts is enough to power a million AppleTVs (which I only just found out were a thing), but not enough to run the operations of the company that produces them. Still, it's a lot more than Google has managed! (They get 1.6MW of solar. Suck it, Google.) And between the giant solar installation and having its primary power facility on campus, Apple has almost divorced itself from the normal electrical grid, which is pretty cool.
Link:
Apple HQ could have the country’s biggest solar installation, and it still won’t be enough
More on SKCEA.org:
- Surprise! Koch-funded anti-Solyndra ad is ‘mostly false’
by Christopher Mims. Here's an anti-Solyndra ad put out by Americans For Prosperity. It is wrong . And it's been viewed 1 million times on YouTube alone, not to mention millions more on television. Which just goes to show you that if you give the people what they want, t... - Welcome to the real climate war: Big Oil versus the Terminator
by Randy Rieland. The big news is the upset victory of Tea Partier and Republican Party reject Christine O'Donnell in Delaware's GOP Senate primary. It means that now all the Republican candidates for the Senate are climate change deniers . It also means... - When Pigs Fly: Halliburton Makes the Dow Jones Sustainability Index
When we think of companies that stand out as role models of exceptionally responsible behavior in the realm of sustainability, Halliburton is hardly one of the first to spring to mind. Which is why I was a little surprised to learn that "the company we love to hate" was just name... - Cape Wind approved: The U.S. could have offshore wind this year
by Jess Zimmerman. The nation's first offshore wind farm could start construction as early as this fall. The Cape Wind project got final approval for its operating plans today, after ten years of opposition and permitting headaches. Michael Bromwich, last seen terrifying Rac... - Climate convert says deniers are dumb
by Jess Zimmerman. In a beautifully-written post on Climate Crocks, former skeptic D.R. Tucker illuminates the way that far-right climate change denialism encourages and feeds off of science-phobia. Tucker is clearly far from stupid, but he wonders if stupidity is a required cha...
No comments yet.
RSS feed for comments on this post. TrackBack URL
