For my first post, I thought of writing why I chose “Black” as the main color of the site. Other than black being one of my favorite colors, it also saves energy. Yes, you heard it right. A monitor needs more power or energy to display white (or light) colors than to display black (or dark) colors.
Google being the most popular site, it was said that a black Google could save 750 megawatt-hours an year.
Below are some of the search engines using Google and are in black color.
http://www.blackle.com/
http://black-google.blogspot.com/
Go ahead, start using them and start saving energy. Some small bit that we can contribute.
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But KJ I find it nearly impossible to read more than a few paragraphs of white text on a black background.
Its not only my problem many has this issue.
http://www.michaelbach.de/ot/lum_herGrid/index.html
I agree Baskar. But there are many sites where there are not much paragraphs to read .. in those cases, may be we can try to save energy. An example would be a search engine. You just search there and would click on the result and go to an other site. So, effectively the time spent on search engine is less and so that can be in Black. And as there are numerous users accessing the same search engine, collective you save a lot of energy :)
I really believe that if we all search with black google and get black results we can save energy.
Google.com gets about 200 million queries a day and each query is displayed for about 10 seconds.That means Google is running for about 550.000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run Google in full screen mode the shift to a black background will save a total of 15 watts.CRT monitor uses about 74 watts to display an all white web page, but only uses 59 watts to display an all black page.
http://blackgooglesearch.blogspot.com/
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