Energy saving search engine.

[kidigus]

This search engine known as "Blackle" boasts a pitch-black background with white text, which takes a bit less energy for you monitor to display. It's use won't take a big chunk out of your indevidual power bill; the difference in energy consumption compared to reguler search engines isn't enough to flip a light on and off realy fast, but the idea is to get lots of people use it in order to reduce the total power consumtion of the population.

http://blackle.com/

 

[Dr Ampersand]

This is really really close to breaking the no advertising rule. You also didn't ask any question to start conversation.

 

[mikecoulter]

I thought modern displays used just as much energy to display blacks as whites?

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Why not save even more power, and just use the in-browser search engine?

 

[Distorted Stu]

What if i was using an RBG projector?

 

[kidigus]

This is really really close to breaking the no advertising rule. You also didn't ask any question to start conversation.

Realy? I should've figued as much, I only skimmed through the rules/guidelines and that was over a year ago X(

 

[kidigus]

What if i was using an RBG projector?

I don't know, I'm no tech professional I just heard about this from my science teacher.

 

[Anarchemitis]

It's the same as Google, it's just black, so it makes your monitor use less power. Which is how it touts itself as "energy saving".
It might save more power by not existing, and saving the resources it takes to maintain the website and the employees of that company.

Just me throwing it out there.

 

[kidigus]

It's the same as Google, it's just black, so it makes your monitor use less power. Which is how it touts itself as "energy saving".
It might save more power by not existing, and saving the resources it takes to maintain the website and the employees of that company.

Just me throwing it out there.

In the same way that you could theoreticaly save power by NOT building and maintaining windmills or solar panals?

 

[Anarchemitis]

It's the same as Google, it's just black, so it makes your monitor use less power. Which is how it touts itself as "energy saving".
It might save more power by not existing, and saving the resources it takes to maintain the website and the employees of that company.

Just me throwing it out there.

In the same way that you could theoreticaly save power by NOT building and maintaining windmills or solar panals?

Not quite the same inputs or outputs. Or terms of scale.

 

[kidigus]

It's the same as Google, it's just black, so it makes your monitor use less power. Which is how it touts itself as "energy saving".
It might save more power by not existing, and saving the resources it takes to maintain the website and the employees of that company.

Just me throwing it out there.

In the same way that you could theoreticaly save power by NOT building and maintaining windmills or solar panals?

Not quite the same inputs or outputs. Or terms of scale.

It's not a perfect comparason but you get what I mean. Or do you?