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Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy?
i_like_spam writes "Recent commentary at Nature Climate Change describes an on-going debate about the energy savings associated with the background colors used by high-traffic websites such as Google and the NYTimes. A back of the envelope calculation has suggested energy savings of 750 Megawatt hours per year if Google switched their background from white to black. In response, a new version of Google called Blackle was created. However, other calculations by the Wall Street Journal suggest minimal energy savings."
Black background with bright letters is NOT easier on the eyes. I prefer white background because I dont have burned white lines on my eyes after reading.
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Black is not 'cool'. A white background is like a serious book or a newspaper, a black background is like some 'l33t' site involving 'h4>0ring' and 'm4d w4r3z ftw'.
Regardless (and this most certainly is information you should take to heart), the report states that, for LCDs, it doesn't matter. The wattage thoroughput as shown in the report they reference gives that LCDs use about a quarter of the power of a black CRT screen regardless what color it's showing- save a std. dev. of something like 2-3W.
So rather than reset your goddamn desktop to look like the rest of your mother's basement, you could just... buy an LCD.
+5, Truth