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Black is the new Google!
By Bill on Thursday 26 July 2007 at 11:42
When your screen is white, whether it is 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 into account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 megawatts-hours per year would be saved.
In a response to this article Heap Media created a black version of the Google search engine, called Blackle with the exact same functions as the white version, but with lower energy consumption.
Will connectedlife follow suit?
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9 comments:
On Thursday 26 July 2007 at 15:36, Matt said:
Is that for CRT or TFT/LCD monitors?
On Thursday 26 July 2007 at 21:51, Mark B said:
They're talking about CRT's, although there is still a difference with LCD's but it's much, much smaller.
However, I'm not going to be changing this site to follow suit, because a) we only get about 50 visits a day, so any saving would be negligible, and b) white text on black is horrible to read, and probably gives you eye cancer or something.
Also, I've just ordered 2 (count 'em) widescreen TFT's, so suck my excessive power consumption, environment boy.
On Thursday 26 July 2007 at 23:55, The Masked Avenger said:
My TV cuts down on my heating bill. Swings and roundabouts !!
On Friday 27 July 2007 at 17:20, expectant future housemates said:
So your keeping your telly then Avenger?
On Friday 27 July 2007 at 18:49, EDF Energy's Managing Director said:
Please keep your telly, Masked Avenger. You're putting my kids through uni.
On Friday 27 July 2007 at 19:26, Matt said:
74W to 59W is a 20% reduction - according to a quick search, switching to an LCD monitor will reduce your consumption by roughly 50%. That said, simply binning your old CRT monitor and buying a new TFT will actually incur a massive energy cost - the manufacture of the new one, disposal of the old one, shipping, etc. So it's wrong to think you'd be saving the planet by getting one (*cough* Toyota Prius *cough*).
On the other hand, there are many other, more realistic reasons to get one:
- they look cool as fuck (especially twin widescreens, Mark)
- they have a smaller footprint
- you have one-to-one pixel mapping
- they don't take ages to turn on
- they don't get as hot
- they look AWESOME (did I already mention that?)
So stop reading this on your crappy, blurry CRT monster and get yourself a flatscreen.
On Friday 27 July 2007 at 19:28, billybean said:
Or just buy a Mac.
On Friday 27 July 2007 at 19:30, billybean said:
Because they're really environmentally friendly!
On Monday 30 July 2007 at 23:27, Dan said:
and they look EVEN MORE AWESOME