…”Apparently, an all white computer screen, such as an empty Word page, or the Google page, uses 74 watts to display, whereas a black screen consumes only 59 watts. So claimed Mark Ontkush in a post on the ecoIron blog in January. Doing a few back of the envelope calculations based on numbers of users per day and wattage for different coloured screen from EnergyStar, Ontkush figured that the energy saving would be 750 Megawatt hours per year if Google had a black screen.

And so, with the help of Heap Media, Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle.”…

>>> via

>>> http://www.heapmedia.com/
>>> http://www.blackle.com/

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