Energy Saving simply by changing Google's
background color
Recently I heard from a friend, somebody made a calculation and
estimated that there are a lot of electricity gone for nothing just
by the white color background of Google thus if everybody on the
planet simply choose to change the background to black of his
beloved search engine google it's possible to save a lot of energy
up to 750 MegaWatts per year, thus the website
blackle was created. Of course blackle
does make requests to Google and it needs some more energy to keep
the website up running and serving on the other hand routers which
route the traffic to blackle and later redirecting to google are
consuming energy too, thus my personal belief is it's pretty
controversial does it really save energy to use blackle. There is
another alternative and this is Firefox plugin called
GreaseMonkey+the custom userscript called "dark google". This
plugin in combination with the script makes Google's background
black through few browser defined Javascripts and uses directly the
Google search engine. I personally I'm going to try that and if
it's working fine maybe I'm going to use that. From my perspective
there is another reason for which you may use Google on a black
background. Maybe at least 10 or 20% of the time I'm infront the PC
I use Google, so using Black background on my Laptop LCD screen is
beneficial for the slower depreciation of my LCD screen, it's well
known that in order to make an LCD pixel white white is illuminated
thus with the months and years making that pixel more likely to
burn. On the other hand using black background makes your black
pixels less used and abused
by the
illuminating light on the pixel's molecules all the time the
probability for a problems increases tremendously. To figure that
out I used common logic so ofcourse I may be wrong. Thinking in the
same manner I think a lot of energy could be saved by the simply
altering most or all of the background colors out there.