An interesting Idea for those worried with energy consumption

 

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 a lower energy consumption, check it out.

 

http://www.blackle.com

 

I have tried it and it works. Takes a bit of getting used to though.

 

We can offset it against the huge carbon footprint we get with our monster cars. Should keep the greenies happy.

 

Darrell

i really did think this was going to be some kind of joke, the world is going bloody crackers!!!

good idea, saves us money on elecs too!

Only relevant for CRTs. For LCDs, backlight is on all the time whether the pixel is black or white. Unless you turn the backlight down of course.

 

And whether you're green, stupid or polka dotted, one of the side benefits of saving energy is your electricity bills go down.

My screen background is always black, I like to think of it as staring into the abyss ...