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‘Blackle’ Saves Electricity on Internet Searches
Gimundo reports on Blackle, a black paged version of Google.

In January, a blogger named Mark Ontkush wrote in his blog EcoIron that an all-black Google home page would save 750 megawatt-hours of electricity a year. What does that mean? We looked it up.

Turns out 750 megawatt-hours can power for an entire year:

– 77 North American homes
– 150 European homes
– 268 African homes
– 536 Asian or South American homes
– 3,750 homes in Afghanistan
– 6,000 televisions
– 800 microwaves

Ontkush pointed out that an all-white Web page requires about 74 watts to display, where a black page requires only 59 watts.

In response, an Australian company called Heap Media created a Google-powered site called blackle.com. The site keeps a running total of the number of watts saved to date. At press time, that number was nearly 135 million watt-hours.

There’s something oddly attractive about the Blackle homepage. We find it calming – both in look and the fact that we’re saving energy.

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