In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. The creators of Blackle cite the US Department of Energy's Energy Star information page which states that a monitor displaying white uses 74 watts, while a monitor displaying black uses 59 watts.
Wikipedia says since it is not owned by Google Inc., the Blackle site lacks many of the features of conventional Google, including the 'Cached' and 'Similar Pages' options, and it does not have as many of the corresponding links that can be found on the Google homepage.
According to Treehugger.com, Blackle’s homepage at May 7th's publication time of this year, a total of 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved.
Wikipedia says since it is not owned by Google Inc., the Blackle site lacks many of the features of conventional Google, including the 'Cached' and 'Similar Pages' options, and it does not have as many of the corresponding links that can be found on the Google homepage.
According to Treehugger.com, Blackle’s homepage at May 7th's publication time of this year, a total of 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved.
Test for yourself: Blackle.com
Edited per reader demand :)
6 comments:
Nice, but I'm a living color type of person. I spent my childhood watching only B/W television and the first years of computer time with monochrome. I don't want to waste energy but, I want my color google just the same.
Hahahaha ...Hippie'net ! Where is that peace sign medallion? ....
ps. *supposedly* up to : 158,341.571 Watt hours saved
so I guess going back to that little 15 inch monitor would help instead of this 19 too huh.
going back to ? I'm one step above a monochrome monitor here . In reality a newer 19" may be much more energy efficient than an older 15" - technology does *sometimes* improve things . The one item not touched on in the treehugger.com article would be the use of LCD monitors vs. crt - kind of a redundancy to the article - as LCD's are quite a bit better at efficiency(and would contradict the article ;-)
ps...I had no doubt you were a 'closet'hippie!
"aaaaaand...here's your (peace) sign" LOL
hey now, is that peace sign backwards and missing one finger? If so, I'm lol my a$$ off, don't really care, and I'm sure you don't either. Truth is I'm one step ahead of a 486 system myself,and I've spent a small forutune on compact florescent bulbs for the house to drop the electric bill some ,,,, and???? some how, I've not seen any money saved in my pocket that much, maybe it will accumulate in the coming months. oh well, we'll see soon enough.
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