Once you go black, you’ll never go back?
How would you tree huggers like to save on the environment? Save some energy perhaps? Using this pc alone already takes some sort of energy and there is no doubt, by combining the whole world population, we could definitely power up a few small countries.
I just found out that if we were to go black, there’s quite an amount of energy that we can save. Do you know that an all white page that you view on your monitor will use about 74 watts to be diplayed? Compared that to a black background, only 59 watts. With a simple math, Google gets around 200 million. Assuming every query is displayed about 10 seconds, the people of the world is running it at 550,000 hours every day. That savings of 15 watts using black backgrund will save 8.3 Megawatt-hours per day or about 3000 Megawatts-hours per year. Assuming that 25% of the world population are using CRT monitors, assuming it’s 10 cents kilowatt an hour, that’s a savings of $75,000 just by changing some codes.
I’d like to say I made this myself but I did not. Check out Mark Ontkush’s posting.
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Personally, I find it very hard to say that the post is anything other than nonsense. I doubt that the wattage consumed by rendering different colours on the monitor can be that high.
Azmeen- Really? Anyway, no controlled study has been done so there’s no validity in it anyway. Hmm.. I wonder if we control brightness? Will that save a few Acacia trees?
The moment i read this… i immediately lower my screen brightness