Black is the new green
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7300403.stm
<quote>
The technology we use is accounting for more
and more of the energy we consume, says Bill
Thompson. And we need to know just how much.
The next time you want to search for something
on the web, try going to www.blackle.com
instead of your usual search engine.
The page you get looks remarkably like Google,
and queries are fed through to Google, but
there's one obvious difference.
Instead of the generous amount of white space
which has characterised Google's home page
since its 1998 launch, the page is mostly black.
Heap Media, the Australian company behind Blackle,
claims black pixels take less power than white and
so using its search saves energy. It believes that
small things matter when it comes to reducing our
energy use, limiting our CO2 output and reducing
the likely extent of global warming as a result of
human activity.
Whether or not turning off a few million white pixels
makes a measurable difference is debatable, and
Google has challenged the assumptions behind Blackle,
especially when it comes to LCD screens.
</quote>
Although black backgrounds might save a few watts here and there, I
have a hunch that the benefits might well outweigh the costs... pages
on teh interwebs can be valuable resource IF they are accessible
I guess that, if you're seriously motivated to help your visitors save
a few watts, you could (easily!) implement an 'energy-efficient skin'
OPTION via CSS and a script... or you could use an ole-fashioned text/
image approach to get your message across :)
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