If you’re a frequent reader of the Rocket Yard, you’ll be quite aware of our affinity for all things related to outer space. And the story that we’ve been following today comes from deep space – about 3 billion miles away –...
Boy Scouts from Camp Lakota were given a look at OWC’s environmental efforts during an educational tour of the company’s LEED Platinum Certified facility on Friday. Tour guide OWC Ryan showed the Scouts OWC’s campus including the energy-efficient warehouse, our...
Apple Solar Farm, North Carolina OWC is a leader in using renewable clean energy for operations, recently announcing that it will soon produce enough on-site wind and solar power to cover its energy needs at four facilities in three states --...
The name “Other World Computing” has long stood to symbolize our commitment to providing an out of this world experience for our customers and unmatched support for Mac and PC users... not to mention our affinity for all things outer...
When it comes to Earth Day, it’s easy to understand why some people would tend to think big. Earth is a rather large place, after all. But just because it’s such a large place, it doesn’t mean that small efforts...
Tim Cook, CEO of Apple, announced Tuesday that the company has made a 25-year solar energy agreement with First Solar Inc. to power its California operations. In what Cook called the company’s “biggest, boldest and most ambitious project ever,” Apple...
Laptop batteries don’t last forever. And when upgrades are made, sometimes users still aren’t sure what to do with the original battery and ultimately throw them away creating unnecessary e-waste. One great alternative is recycling your battery locally. In fact, OWC...
After ten years and billions of miles of travel, the Philae lander parted today from the European Space Agency’s Rosetta spacecraft and landed on the surface of a comet. Philae landed on 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko at 11 a.m. EST, marking the first...
Now that we’ve moved past winter and those nasty snowdrifts, we can begin to see a silver lining from all of that bone-chilling wind in Woodstock, Ill. From January 2014 through April 2014, OWC’s on-site Vestas V39-500 kW wind turbine produced...
