[NetBehaviour] Fwd: BLACKLE

b xperimënts mediaidea at arkania.org
Tue Jul 24 02:16:16 CEST 2007


... it is amazing that google created that black screen without checking 
that it is imposible to read it... (color style is not #ffffff) and what 
one save in energy, one loose it in eye sight...


!


(didn't they check different designs?)



Helen Varley Jamieson escribió:
>>> Folks,
>>>
>>> We probably all use google several times a day - here's something 
>>> to consider:
>>>
>>> When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google 
>>> page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it 
>>> consumes only 59 watts. 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, worked out at a saving of 750 mega 
>>> watts/hour per year.
>>>
>>> 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
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