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This was sent to me by my energy conservation buddies.. interesting ..
For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides. When
your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page,
your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only
59 watts. 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/
Did alittle further research and found that this savings is realized on CRT monitors and not LCD monitors - but I think it is interesting nonetheless..
Also, the black is a bit hard on the eyes for some people..
Nice thought, though
For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides. When
your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page,
your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only
59 watts. 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/
Did alittle further research and found that this savings is realized on CRT monitors and not LCD monitors - but I think it is interesting nonetheless..
Also, the black is a bit hard on the eyes for some people..
Nice thought, though
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