Oh whoopie-de-doo! Samsung promises all its factories will be powered by 100% renewable energy. So, get ready for more of this:
More pristine rural vistas clogged up with industrial power plants and blinking red lights as far as the eye can see.
Samsung acts like this is a good thing. Like this is something that will make people buy its phones. Not this girl!
Samsung folded after a year of being harassed by Greenpeace.
Samsung acts like this is a good thing. Like this is something that will make people buy its phones. Not this girl!
Samsung folded after a year of being harassed by Greenpeace.
Activists have pointed out that Samsung lags behind rivals when it comes to going green. Apple and Google have both purchased enough renewable energy, such as wind or solar energy, to offset their global energy consumption since April. (It’s likely that Samsung will also purchase renewable energy to offset its consumption, rather than be directly powered by renewables.)
Greenpeace? That's still a thing? I hardly ever see Greenpeace making news anymore. Is this really what mainstream America wants? To have their buying choices directed by fringe environmental bullies?
I notice that it's acknowledged that Samsung will not actually be using renewable energy. Instead it will make some shakedown payments to renewable energy companies to increase renewable energy profits. Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs, are an imaginary way to "buy" renewable energy and pretend a company is environmentally conscious, while continuing to use "dirty" fossil fueled power to run its factories. Whoever invented a way to create an additional revenue stream for energy generators out of thin air is a financial genius. Simply buying RECs excuses a company from actually running its factories on renewable energy while allowing them to say they do. The whole scheme smacks of environmental extortion to me.
Is the environment made cleaner this way? Well, no. The factories continue to use their current power source, and the renewable energy generator who sells the REC gains another revenue stream. The renewable energy generator is going to generate anyway... and any actual electrons generated are purchased by someone who actually uses the electricity. But renewable energy is so CHEAP, they say, it's competitive with other sources of energy. That's because the renewable energy generator has two income streams... that from actual energy generated and that from imaginary feel-good credits that it sells to clueless companies like Samsung. Without companies like Samsung subsidizing renewable energy generators with shakedown payments, renewable energy wouldn't be so cheap.
Rural America is being gobbled up at a rapid pace and the land that once provided food is now providing this:
I notice that it's acknowledged that Samsung will not actually be using renewable energy. Instead it will make some shakedown payments to renewable energy companies to increase renewable energy profits. Renewable Energy Credits, or RECs, are an imaginary way to "buy" renewable energy and pretend a company is environmentally conscious, while continuing to use "dirty" fossil fueled power to run its factories. Whoever invented a way to create an additional revenue stream for energy generators out of thin air is a financial genius. Simply buying RECs excuses a company from actually running its factories on renewable energy while allowing them to say they do. The whole scheme smacks of environmental extortion to me.
Is the environment made cleaner this way? Well, no. The factories continue to use their current power source, and the renewable energy generator who sells the REC gains another revenue stream. The renewable energy generator is going to generate anyway... and any actual electrons generated are purchased by someone who actually uses the electricity. But renewable energy is so CHEAP, they say, it's competitive with other sources of energy. That's because the renewable energy generator has two income streams... that from actual energy generated and that from imaginary feel-good credits that it sells to clueless companies like Samsung. Without companies like Samsung subsidizing renewable energy generators with shakedown payments, renewable energy wouldn't be so cheap.
Rural America is being gobbled up at a rapid pace and the land that once provided food is now providing this:
Who needs food? You can just look at pictures of food on your cheap Samsung smart phone. After all, why would a farmer continue to break his back farming when he can sit on the porch and watch the red lights blink at night and still draw an income?
Don't give me any of that propaganda about how wind turbines and farming can happen on the same property. Every wind turbine takes acreage out of production. And they drive the people who have to live near them crazy.
Rural folks are gathering in increasing numbers to stop the wind invasion in their communities. I don't think they care about Greenpeace, or Samsung, or RECs. They just don't want to live in the middle of an electric generation plant.
So next time you're shopping for a cell phone, remember your last meal and where it came from. No, I mean really came from. Food is not manufactured out of thin air like RECs. Nobody cares more about the environment than a working farmer. Not even Samsung.
Don't give me any of that propaganda about how wind turbines and farming can happen on the same property. Every wind turbine takes acreage out of production. And they drive the people who have to live near them crazy.
Rural folks are gathering in increasing numbers to stop the wind invasion in their communities. I don't think they care about Greenpeace, or Samsung, or RECs. They just don't want to live in the middle of an electric generation plant.
So next time you're shopping for a cell phone, remember your last meal and where it came from. No, I mean really came from. Food is not manufactured out of thin air like RECs. Nobody cares more about the environment than a working farmer. Not even Samsung.
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