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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."
A site that criticizes google for having a light background itself uses a light background.
File under 'M' for 'Manic ranting'
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.
Once Google has gone Black, they'll never go back. That's what I hear, anyway.
The theory of relativity doesn't work right in Arkansas.
PLEASE USE BOLD AND UPPERCASE IN YOUR COMMENTS. A +5 COMMENT IN BOLD AND UPPERCASE SAVES 5 DONKEY-FORTHNIGHTS OF THE ENERGY
It will provide at least 50% in power savings.
Then again, that extra money might get taken up in seizure meds.
You're asking how much more black it could be?
Look, we're all hemming and hawing around the real issue. You want to see what the real agenda of the Blackle is? Everywhere they talk about black and white "backgrounds", think black and white "people".
That's right, the Blackle crew is seeking to replace all white people with black people. It's a well known fact that black people's internal batteries consume less power than those that power white people, and the dark tone of their skin means that they retain more of the sunlight that all humans need to enable the process of photosynthesis. Not only that, but as any student of physics knows, playing basketball and generally being cool by nature decrease the amount of entropy in the universe. That's right, black people violate the laws of thermodynamics via being hip and talking jive.
Also compare the lifestyles of each group. As an attempt to cover up their small penises, white people buy a lot of high tech gadgetry, creating, in essence, a proxy-dong out of cell phones, laptops, PDA's, Italian cars, etc... The preening of white people accounts for 85% of the world's energy consumption. Proven fact. What's the most extravagant black peacock display? Rims? They spin all by themselves! They're fucking perpetual motion machines! Black people have perpetual motion machines on their goddamn impalas. Does your iPhone have a fucking perpetual motion machine? No it doesn't, because Steve Jobs is white, and the knowledge of perpetual motion is forbidden to whites by the god Ogun. So suck it.
Look, mock me if you want, but I've seen this kind of thing before. Sure, you environmentalists are thinking "Well, if eradicating all people of my skin tone is what it takes to save mother earth, then I guess that I'll have to suck it up and take it." Well, to paraphrase Pastor Martin Niemöller, first they came for the whites, and you did nothing. Then they came for the kitties, and you did nothing. Then they came for the sort of caramel colored guys, but not the South Americans, just the kind of half-white/half black guys. Then they came for the old blues guitarist black guys from Alabama. And then they'll come for you. Is it really worth it?
I, for one, will fight against Blackle's attempt to eliminate all white people. It's an injustice,and must be stopped!
No, indeed, this will bring lots of extra costs as well. The black background will push many, many slashdotters into the abyss of depression. To counter this, they will flee into light therapy and burn up many gigawatts of healthy light.
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Apparently people who can spell correctly are also a dying breed.
Mod me down and prove me right.
I hate printers.
Sorry, it's really late/early...I just couldn't resist.
POWER saving of the darkside...
Skywalker: pardon?!
Thread makers are a dyeing breed.
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I found that porn sites use mostly black backgrounds with light (usually pink) text. I've committed this research for over thirteen years, and I consider myself something of an expert on the subject...
Do not look into laser with remaining eye.
I'm sorry, but your units of measurement are quite strange to me. Can you convert to one of the following less ambiguous units? Thanks!
*Burning library's of congress
*Shuttle fuel tanks