For those concerned about energy consumption ... When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google home 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, and according to his calculations, 750 mega watt hours 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 a lower energy consumption. Check it out, and make it your home page.
www.blackle.com
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Filo! How in the world did you find me? That's funny. I was just talking about you yesterday with Dee Dee Sanchez. We sit next to each other. She mentioned you guys did first year together, and the Saintes program together. Hope you all are doing well!
glad you are doing well. your name came up through Google Alerts (http://www.google.com/alerts) (I use the BNIM keyword), and when you posted BNIM on your blog I got the link. Let's catch up soon
The Emergy-c Low Wattage Palette was immediately lauded by band-wagon jumping eco-hobbyists without considering the color blindness, usability, ink costs for printed web pages* and...best of all, that most LCD monitors expend more energy to display black. It's the old fashioned CRTs that fewer people have every day that could benefit from this technique (even then, infinitesimally). From this sprung the equally naive Blackle.com - the all black version of Google supposedly saving wattage everywhere (but given the increasing prevalence of LCD monitors that require more energy to view 'Black Google' probably results in a wash, at best). * Regarding web pages, yes you can specify alternative CSS sheets for printing, if the individual web designers making 'Low Wattage' sites use one. Emphasis on if.
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