Green is the new black
Prepare to be educated... when your screen is white – eg; an empty word page, or on a Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when it’s black it consumes only 59 watts.
A chap called Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved. In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption, check it out:
www.blackle.com
Use this site as your search engine and do your bit for the planet and replace your old google favourite’s icon with blackle.com!
Friday, August 10, 2007
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1 comments:
readability isn't phenenomenal on blackle. interesting, though.
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