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On 26/07/07, Toby Lanham <lanners100 at hotmail.com> wrote:
> For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides.
>
> When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the
> Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it
> consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy
> saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in
> account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations,
> 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.
>
> In a response to this article Google created a black version of
> its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the
> white version, but with a lower energy consumption, check it out:
>
> www.blackle.com

But the amount of eyestrain will increase, leading to production and
shipment of more pairs of glasses or contact lenses. I *hate* web
sites with dark backgrounds :grr:

Tim