Amazon says it now runs on 100% clean power. Employees say it’s more like 22%
Amazon says it now runs on 100% clean power. Employees say it’s more like 22%
Amazon Employees for Climate Justice is calling out the tech giant for what it says are misleading claims about its use of renewable energy.
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First off there's no such thing as 100% clean or renewable power. Solar panels are metals (mined with petroleum powered equipment and probably refined in China using coal) plus petroleum products (plastics etc). They're shipped around on trucks and boats, and if they're burnt to remove the petrolium products before extracting the metals when they're 'recyced' then it's literally burning fossil fuels.
Not only that but they're buying RECs. The power they're consuming could very well be 100% generated by coal, but they gave a few bucks to somebody who had solar or wind.