Google in Black
As noted, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let’s assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about 25 percent of the monitors in the world are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that’s $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.
Check this out and try to make it your home page.
http://black-google.blogspot.com/
Source for facts:EcoIron blog.
http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html
See blacklys.com – The Black Google that i have ever seen
They have a firefox Search Extension too.. Interesting..
More over, You can rename the main display to anything you like. Cool huh?
i like this
Hey, David. Nice suggestion. I liked it. Sorry for the late reply. I was visiting a relation for a while and did not really check my blog after returning.
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Green is the new Black | Written By All Of Us | A Slack Barshinger Blog said this on May 18, 2009 at 5:00 pm
gracias por el google black