Experts call them "vampire loads"-energy-sucking devices that still consume wattage while lying dormant or idle. One of the most notorious of these devices is the fax machine, the 'Lestat' of office equipment, which needs to be kept running in case it receives a fax.
"If you run a fax machine 24/7, you create 80 Kg of greenhouse gas per year in our area. That's a lot considering how infrequently it's actually used," says DJ MacIntyre, President of renewable energy advocate Le Boisé Alternatives.
In addition to consuming energy, fax machines also use paper, which is too often wasted on unnecessary cover pages, fax reports and faulty fax transmissions. Internet fax industry leader MyFax recognizes this fact, reporting that "[if] 1% of all paper faxes sent in America each year were sent electronically, 73.5 million trees would be saved."
These numbers are precisely the reason why MyFax promotes Internet fax as the green alternative to traditional fax machines. Nowadays, people are also more quickly embracing electronic copies, which can be saved on a computer or PDA and do not have to be printed.
The mobile aspect of email and electronic documents is appearing more and more desirable and environmentally responsible to consumers. People are also becoming more comfortable with Email fax or E fax services, especially since the majority of email servers and Internet fax sites provide secure archives of stored information that can be accessed "anywhere one can access the internet," according to Steve Adams, Vice President of Marketing for Protus, owner of MyFax.
Though there is not yet a paperless society, there is, instead, a myth that traditional fax machines are still desirable.
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