Emission Impossible

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Your iPhone is now altruistic, whether you like it or not. As Apple puts it: “When Clean Energy Charging is enabled and you connect your iPhone to a charger, your iPhone gets a forecast of the carbon emissions in your local energy grid and uses it to charge your iPhone during times of cleaner energy production.”

There are two types of reaction to this, the first of which resembles that of someone who wakes from a nap in the woods and finds bugs crawling over him. Get them off of me! Get them off! The other is a soft, happy smile: I’m doing something for the planet. Isn’t that just like me?

James Lileks

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James Lileks

James Lileks blogs at www.lileks.com.

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