"Apple's state-of-the art campus brings at least $100 million dollars in investment to California and generates no additional greenhouse gas emissions," Brown said in a statement to this newspaper, listing two of the requirements Apple had met to qualify under the law. "On-site fuel cells and 650,000 square feet of solar panels will provide clean, renewable energy for more than 12,000 Apple employees on the new campus." — siliconvalley.com
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tax breaks and fast tracked status!
also, brown's dead wrong on this: 'generates no additional greenhouse gas emissions' - only if the project is off-grid. grid-tied net zero ain't 'emissions free'
not to mention all the vehicular emissions from everyone commuting to this suburban spaceship....
Apple is sitting on $110 BILLION (yes, with a B) cash reserve. It's really nice of them to be bringing $100 MILLION of it to CA. That's like accounting rounding error to them.
Ryan
'generates no additional greenhouse gas emissions' - only if the project is off-grid. grid-tied net zero ain't 'emissions free'
people in the south bay drive just like in LA - that's why the "ring" will get new parking garages nearby to accommodate all the cars the environmentally conscious Apple workers drive.
Xenakis,
I wrote that, not ryan! i'm not even referring to the transportation emissions. net zero buildings are only 'zero carbon' or emission free' if the building is completely disconnected from the grid (battery storage) or if they actually produce significantly more energy than they consume. sure, you can make up your own voodoo electron math and claim it's such, but because of how dirty the grid is (and issues of drawing power timelines v. produced energy timelines) emission free is a f*cking myth. makes for great marketing, though...
Suburban superblocks are just as boring as urban ones.
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