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Change Google's Background Color To Save Energy?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the turned-off-until-further-notice dept.

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."

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  1. Oh, the irony.... by mark-t · · Score: 5, Funny

    A site that criticizes google for having a light background itself uses a light background.

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  2. double entendre by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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    1. Re:double entendre by yoyhed · · Score: 5, Funny

      Can't we go to the middle ground and let Google go Asian?

      Of course, I wouldn't know how to implement that


      Umm... "body bgcolor=#FFFF00" ?
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  3. Slashdotters, take notice by archeopterix · · Score: 5, Funny

    PLEASE USE BOLD AND UPPERCASE IN YOUR COMMENTS. A +5 COMMENT IN BOLD AND UPPERCASE SAVES 5 DONKEY-FORTHNIGHTS OF THE ENERGY

    1. Re:Slashdotters, take notice by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      Anything with the word "Donkey-fortnight" gets past the lameness filter

    2. Re:Slashdotters, take notice by sqldr · · Score: 5, Funny

      How on earth did you get that through the lamness filter?

      It was conserving energy.

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  4. Bring back the BLINK tag... by Octopus · · Score: 5, Funny

    It will provide at least 50% in power savings.

    Then again, that extra money might get taken up in seizure meds.

  5. Feel the by jsse · · Score: 5, Funny

    POWER saving of the darkside...

    Skywalker: pardon?!

  6. Re:Only applicable for CRTs by Detritus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Thread makers are a dyeing breed.

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