Last year, writer Mark Ontkush argued for a Black Google site. Cathode Ray Tube (CRT) monitors, which account for 25% of the world’s computer monitors, use more electrical wattage on white display than on an all black display (comparably, 74 watts versus 59 watts). By a major website such as Google changing a simple code, they would save approximately $75,000 per year in money and 8.3 Megawatt-hours of energy per day.
As a response, Blackle was created as a customized search engine designed to use a lower energy wattage. For those interested in utilizing lower power wattages on their own personal websites, journals, or computer monitors in general, EcoIron published Emergy-C Low Wattage Palette, complete with coding and the six lowest consuming colors. EcoIron provides additional information on Blackle and other darkly tinted Google alternatives.
great! we should all do it!
my blog is already black and grey, how about yours?
Left by LaBallena on March 8th, 2008