Got it in an email, if any of it is bulls***, I'm sorry:

For those worried with energy consumption and all its downsides ... When your
screen is white, being 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.

http://www.blackle.com

it wasn't created by google, for a start

f***ing racists

f***ing lol

I'd believe it!

My default Windows background colour is grey, not white. I guess that makes me an ECOWARRIOR.

that's some funny s***

imagine how much power you would save if everyone used the 'i'm feeling lucky' link, thereby going straight to the hopefully non-white result you are after.

jumping on the environment bandwagon.

thats the whole reason QGL is near on black and navy

haha it Might. make a difference to CRT monitors but deffinately not lcds, their backlights shine regaurdless

I don't think that's the point Fnuckle.

Hey guys lets all go out and buy Toyota Prius's too

this will now be my preferred search engine when i google from my prius

thanks idol

suck it long, and suck it hard nF

so close damn it

omg if thats true me like all the other cs fags out there with their gamma ramped through the roof are chewing the power!

I don't see how it could hurt to change over if it does indeed have all the same search functions so I am doing so.

Thanks for the heads up Idol :).

Doom3 was saving power

*edit* don't believe it has any effect on LCDs. Infact black would use a tiny tiny little bit more ? Activated LCDs block light right ?

last edited by Obes at 14:27:04 25/Jul/07

I dunno man, when I have a white screen my LCD is like a f***ing flood light...

Well you might not know, but I am pretty sure I do.

The back lighting in an active LCD is 1 or more Cold Cathode Fluoro Lamps (CCFL) (I use em as moon lightings in aquariums, some people use them for lighting in cars, very hard to find out technical information about their colour temperature or spectrum tho).

They are on whether 1 pixel has colour, 0 pixels have colour or all the pixels have colour.

wiki

miniature CCFLs are extensively used as backlights for computer liquid crystal displays

A DIY article on repairing a blown backlight ...

lcdtvbuyingguide.com

The light source in an active-matrix LCD monitor is a florescent bulb

it'd be good for oled displays though right. are they the ones with pixels that provide their own light