We care about the environment learn what we have been doing to improve our power efficiency over the last few years!
We visited Alberta and British Columbia in 2021 during the wildfires and could not believe the extent of the damage that he been done.
In the third picture below that is not only clouds, but also wildfire smoke.
Planting trees was just the exhilarating start of our journey to diminish our environmental footprint at JW Digital Archiving! In 2024, we took a bold step forward by replacing our water heater with a cutting-edge, efficient Rheem ProTerra Hybrid Electric model. This remarkable innovation pulls heat energy from the surrounding air, transforming it into hot water, and it proudly stands as the most efficient water heater on the market with an impressive UEF of up to 4.07. We have slashed our electricity usage by an astonishing 75% compared to our old electric water heater!
In November of 2024, we made an exhilarating leap from our high-end editing desktop, which consumed a staggering 200 watts just to capture videotapes and a whopping 600 to 700 watts when exporting them, to the incredible Apple Mac mini M4! This remarkable machine operates on a mere 20 watts when capturing and just 60 watts while exporting videos! Can you believe it? This is a phenomenal tenfold reduction in power consumption!
Even though this new Mac mini utilizes ten times less power compared to our previous setup, rest assured that the same process for digitizing your tapes remains unchanged.