Black google. Saves more Power.

Search Options	close
Search the following clips: All Clips

news science politics food economy art
technology health internet religion psychology

Sign Up Install Learn More Login


	Black google. Saves more Power.

thefoxalmighty

5-16-2007 12:04 AM

1994 views

tags:

power, google

thefoxalmighty says:

nice calculation ther

2 Comments |

Add a Comment

5-16-2007 11:26 PM

n2sooners

Hmmm, wonder what an alternate dark color scheme for Clipmarks would save?

5-17-2007 12:14 AM

y_qadash

Thank you VERY much!.
Yes it is true, my blog IS in black.
No I did NOT know this would save the world;
However I do believe I still get points for it.!!
OkieLogic.com

Login to Comment. Not a member yet? Sign up

Today's Top Clips

visit the Top Clips page

View the Top Clips from May 16, 2007

Embed This Clip In Your Site...

<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/fac321f6-3d5a-4ee2-a46e-37a890867488/379048BB-42C8-4616-BA8B-2DD7FAD84BA8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html" href="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html" style="font-size: 11px;">ecoiron.blogspot.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/ecoiron.blogspot.com/img/09444CDA-543E-4E84-B3BE-F5E6273026B3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html"><SPAN>As </SPAN><A href="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-pixels-are-new-green-pixels.html#links" set="yes">noted</A><SPAN>, an all white web page uses </SPAN><A href="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-pixels-are-new-green-pixels.html#links" set="yes">about 74 watts </A><SPAN><DIV>to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.  I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.</DIV><BR /></SPAN><SPAN>Take at look at Google, who gets about </SPAN><A href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_search" set="yes">200 million</A><SPAN><DIV> queries a day.  Let's assume 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 (74-59) watts.  That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year.  Now take into account that about 25 percent of the <A href="http://ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/last-piece.html#links">monitors in the world</A> are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000, a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few color codes.</DIV></SPAN></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/379048BB-42C8-4616-BA8B-2DD7FAD84BA8/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

New from the makers of Clipmarks: Amplify.com - Don't just share the news...Amplify it!

Clipmarks: Home; New Clips; Top Clips; Dashboard

Popular Topics: News; Life; Science; Technology; Entertainment

Get Started: Sign Up; Install Clipping Tool; How Clipping Works; Clip-to-Blog™; ClipSearch

Tools and Resources: FAQ; ClipWeek; Top Clippers; Top Tags; Site Map

About Clipmarks: About Us; Contact; Copyright; Privacy; EULA

Search Options

Today's Top Clips