I just happened to stumble across this website. Deemed the 'green' alternative to regular Google searches, Blackle is basically the Google search page with a black background.
ecoIcon writes:
According to their website, if people used this black background instead of the normal white Google page, then we could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year. That is basically saying we could save (as a society) about $75 000 per year in energy by just using a black background.
Blackle uses a custom Google search, so you're basically searching Google, just from a different screen. The website also gives some pointers on how to be more eco friendly.
ecoIcon writes:
"[A]n all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts...Take at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume each query is displayed for about 10 seconds; that means Google is running for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background [on a CRT monitor!] will save a total of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year."
According to their website, if people used this black background instead of the normal white Google page, then we could save 750 Megawatt-hours a year. That is basically saying we could save (as a society) about $75 000 per year in energy by just using a black background.
Blackle uses a custom Google search, so you're basically searching Google, just from a different screen. The website also gives some pointers on how to be more eco friendly.
