And Apple as even more shit lie

DeYoung led a group of engineers who’d spent decades pursuing the holy grail for the notoriously dirty aluminum industry: a way to smelt the metal without producing any direct carbon emissions. Apple Inc., which Harbor Intelligence analyst Jorge Vazquez estimates uses almost 15,000 metric tons of aluminum annually for its electronics gear, had invited DeYoung to explain a potentially revolutionary carbonless manufacturing process for aluminum that his group was developing.

Alcoa Inc. was on the verge of ending the DeYoung team’s yearslong search. To make the tension even worse, moments before DeYoung stepped into a roundtable with Apple engineers, he received word Alcoa was splitting into two publicly traded companies—casting another cloud on his unit’s project. So Apple’s interest in reducing the carbon footprint of its metal casings looked to be key to saving the funding.

But it wasn’t until later in 2015 that the payoff from that meeting came, with help from an unexpected source. That’s when Vincent Christ, a manufacturing information technology expert from Rio Tinto Group Plc, flew to Cupertino for a similar visit. The London-based company, one of Alcoa’s biggest rivals, was also struggling to develop a way to produce aluminum through a process that would emit oxygen instead of carbon dioxide. While heading back to the airport after an hourslong confab with Apple engineers, Christ received a call. Apple had an idea: Rio Tinto and Alcoa were both close to the answer they were looking for, but neither company seemed able to do it on its own. So why not combine efforts?

“We had the engine, but we didn’t have the wheels, chassis, or body, and Rio brought that all to the party,” says DeYoung, who holds a Ph.D. from MIT. “[Apple] said, ‘You guys really ought to talk to Rio,’ and we were like, ‘Yeah, we have already.’ But then we said we’ll talk to them again, and Apple actually facilitated that second contact.”

The result was the creation of Elysis, a joint venture between Alcoa and Rio Tinto with investments from Apple, the government of Canada, and the provincial government of Quebec, which is one of the biggest aluminum-producing regions in the world. The venture has developed a technology that makes so-called green aluminum, whose production doesn’t emit carbon dioxide. If the partners can make the process work at commercial scale, it could be used to retrofit existing smelters, transforming them from some of the dirtiest industrial polluters into the kind of green manufacturing facilities business and government are shifting toward.

“Sustainable packaging is a key opportunity to highlight our commitment to the environment in a tangible way, and we are excited to explore the opportunities to bring this to life in 2021 and beyond,” says Ricardo Marques, vice president for marketing at Anheuser-Busch InBev SA’s Michelob Ultra brand, which has bought some Elysis-made aluminum for its beer cans.

This advance has been a long time coming. In 1886, Alcoa founder Charles Martin Hall discovered a way to use electrolysis to create aluminum, a light, strong metal that’s extracted from bauxite ore. The process creates alumina, an aluminum oxide compound that’s put into a chemical bath where big carbon bricks, called anodes, are used to conduct huge amounts of electricity through the mix. The current splits the pure aluminum from the oxygen molecules, causing large amounts of CO2 to burn off and spew into the atmosphere.

It is only one issue, emitted CO2 is around 1-5% compared to CO2 produced to energy spent to melt Apple one time use designed to be unrepairable mess products. Here Apple could start to say that they use some hydro energy for this and it is green. Nope, as otherwise if Apple made really modular long living product they could not use this hydro energy and provide it to other ventures that now use so "horrible" CO2 sources.

And all this CO2 mess must end with severe repressions towards this cowards and liers.