Hi.
I wanted to create an awareness that Blackle is out there and we can all use it.
Blackle is a website powered by Google Custom Search and was created by Heap Media, which aims to save energy by displaying a black background and using grayish-white font color for search results. Blackle has claimed to have saved over 2,000,000 watt hours, although this claim is under quite a bit of dispute
The concept behind Blackle is that computer monitors can be made to use less energy by displaying much darker colors. Blackle is based on a study which tested a variety of CRT and LCD monitors. There is dispute over whether there really are any energy saving effects, especially for users of LCD screens, where there is a constant backlight, while pixel shaders are used to display various colors.
This concept was first brought to the attention of Efap Media by a blog post, which estimated that Google could save 750 megawatt hours a year by utilizing it for CRT screens. The homepage of Blackle provides a count of the number of watt hours claimed to have been saved by enabling this concept.
www.blackle.com. :)
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