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Power-Saving Web Pages: Real Or Myth?

Posted by timothy on from the raise-your-hand-if-you-think-real dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Are dark webdesigns an energy saving alternative to a snow white Google? The theory is websites with black backgrounds save energy, based on the assumption that a monitor requires more power to display a white screen than black. Is this a blatant green washing ploy by Blackle.com, or an earnest energy saving tweak for a search tool we use every day? To find out, PCSTATS hooked up an Extech Power Analyzer to a 19" CRT and a 19" LCD and measured power draw — turns out there is a not insignificant difference ..."

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  1. Double Negative by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    "turns out there is a not insignificant difference "

    Double negatives are not not bad.

  2. Re:Watts aren't a unit of energy. by blueg3 · · Score: 5, Funny

    If you wait a few seconds, your watts will turn into joules.

  3. Re:No shit... by busyqth · · Score: 5, Funny

    This.

    It is obvious that black is good for the earth and white is bad.
    Why do you think we have climate change? Because of white, of course. No one has even heard of climate change before white messed everything up.

    Not only is white bad, white is unhip. What do you want at your disco? White lights? No, black lights produce the right mood.

    Let's fight the white and save the world!

  4. Re:Seriously? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    No, the big power draw is from CRT displays.
    Both of them. They'll die someday and things will be nice and green again....

    Back in my day the CRTs were green... or sometimes amber.

  5. Save even more power by Megahard · · Score: 5, Funny

    Set your background to black, and all your text so it only displays half the time.

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    I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.