Apple recently formed a new subsidiary, Apple Energy LLC – seemingly to allow the Cupertino giant to sell excess power produced at its solar farms and, ultimately, sell it broadly around the United States. This development suggests especially exciting news about Apple’s electric car project…
Evidently, Apple could fast become a trailblazer as an energy provider. The company has been allowed to employ landfill gas utilization, which traps methane gas produced by landfill sites and either converts it into pipeline-grade gas or puts it towards power generation. By both making power from waste and preventing methane release, this technique is doubly kind to the planet.
Apple has certainly already developed impressive eco-friendly credentials, thanks to initiatives like Apple Renew and the Apps for Earth campaign. But extensive use of landfill gas utilization could take the company even further down this road – a rather apt pun considering the implications for the much-rumored Apple car project, previously reported to have been codenamed Project Titan.
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