A few months ago, TreeHugger Mark
Ontkush wrote a post on his blog EcoIron titled Black Google Would Save 750
Megawatt-hours a Year. The post lays out the following train of thought. "An all
white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only
59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million
queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by
simply changing the color of its homepage to black.
In response to this post a black
version of Google emerged called Blackle.com
According to Blackle's homepage at
publication time, 4,408.917 Watt hours have been saved by . Nice ideas. But how
does the search measure up? Very well indeed.
Give it a whirl yourself
and start saving energy one search at a time. :: Blackle.com ( http://blackle.com/
)
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Hema Amble
Librarian
ING Vysya Bank
CDC
Bangalore
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