Come on ppl save some energy

[phoenix31tt]

Simple, easy and effective - how cool!

For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides. When your screen is white, being it an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its 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.

www.blackle.com (http://www.blackle.com)

[Paradoxxx]

This is one of those "why didn't I think of that" type things, very cool.

[eddoes]

nice info phoenix....maybe i can save some money tuh put gas in meh car now :p

[bourbon_sensei]

hmm maybe I wont have to pay light bill at all...gj

[mojo]

how bout everybody throw out those half arsed power supplies in your pcs and replace them with >85% efficiency ones :P

[Salt]

This is cool but I don't think Google made the page though..its just a custom Google page, which Google allows its users to create. Still a good idea though. Save dem trees!

[phoenix31tt]

enermax ftw >85% eff