Rowan Simpson

Check this out:

http://www.blackle.com/

According to my friend who sent this link to me…

“When your screen is white – either an empty word page, or a Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when it’s 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 in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.

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.

It’s better for the world people!!”

Here is the Mark Ontkush article:

http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html

Nice!

:-)

UPDATE (27-July): Turns out to be a bit of a scam. Go read the comments. Anyway, “green” is so yesterday. Today privacy is the new black. :-)