For energy conscious minded...a search engine of Google that my 10 year old told me about that her school and every state school here in Queensland have changed to.

Same search results as standard google, but the use of a black rather than a white background saves power...


from the site...



How is Blackle saving energy?

Blackle was created by Heap Media to remind us all of the need to take small steps in our everyday lives to save energy. Blackle searches are powered by Google Custom Search.

Blackle saves energy because the screen is predominantly black. "Image displayed is primarily a function of the user's color settings and desktop graphics, as well as the color and size of open application windows; a given monitor requires more power to display a white (or light) screen than a black (or dark) screen." Roberson et al, 2002

In January 2007 a blog post titled Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year proposed the theory that a black version of the Google search engine would save a fair bit of energy due to the popularity of the search engine. Since then there has been skepticism about the significance of the energy savings that can be achieved and the cost in terms of readability of black web pages.

We believe that there is value in the concept because even if the energy savings are small, they all add up. Secondly we feel that seeing Blackle every time we load our web browser reminds us that we need to keep taking small steps to save energy.


It's up to you...but every little bit helps..especially on the power bill.

now using blackle - no brainer - no sweat

ty Jess

thanks,going to change it today

Kewl

It has the added side-affect of making you want to turn down the lighting in the room.

Now if we can just get Mike and Van to use black background on JSH we'll be in good shape.

Coming back here after spending some time on blackle is like snow blindness. I feel like I need to put on a pair of shades now.

:cough cough cough!:

Who put the cigarette in with my shades?

I don't SMOKE!!!

has anybody researched this blackle.com thing?...i suggest you do

not taking any jabs at you either jess

I always check things out on here before i commit

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-a-darkened-google-really-save-electricity-104/