The idea of how using a black version of google.com to help saving nearly thousands of mega-watt energy in a year was made a few ago by Mark Ontkush on his blog EcoIron in a post titled "Black Google Would Save 750 Megawatt-hours a Year". The post says "An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts." Google, which has a white background and gets about "200 million queries a day" could reduce global energy use by 750 Megawatt-hours a year by simply changing the color of its homepage to black.
In response to this post a black version of Google emerged called blackle.com. This search engine has been created by Toby Heap. The site encourages users to make a difference today [by] … Blackling as energy is saved with each search.
No wonder Blackle has also made it to Ibnlive! Check this news snippet with the headline Log on to Blackle, save energy.
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