It seems the people in this world are all of a sudden, leaving no stone unturned in their quest to stem the breaking-down of the eco-system. The latest, is a news article I read about a variant of Google.com that is more friendly to the environment.
Blackle.com is the site that uses Google’s search engine technology albeit in a more environment friendly way. When I saw this, I instinctively asked myself: How the hell do you make a search engine environmentally friendly? Well, Blackle.com has the answers.
Apparently, the predominantly white background of the Google site is responsible for a lot of avoidable wastage of energy. Blackle.com works on the fact that a monitor uses relatively lesser energy (upto 20% less) to display a black (or dark) color when compared to the energy taken to display white (or light) color. Blackle.com is just Google with a black background. The creator says that the idea came when he read a post: Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year. According to the post, a black backgrounded google could save around 3000 MegaWatt-Hours a year. Not insignificant by any means. I say, every bit counts. And as the post says, it is an environment-friendly approach that just takes changing a few color-codes. So why not?
Doesnt make much difference especially in wintertime. The extra heat energy emanating from the monitor using a white screen just goes into the house and heats it, making your heating system work a little less.
Same goes for those silly overpriced spiral lightbulbs. The heat energy emitted from incandescent lightbulbs simply aids in keeping the house warm in winter.
Why dont environmetalists and politicians actually think things through before they all scream at us and legislate thier silly green ideas.