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As of last week I have wanted to write up a small article for Blog Action Day! Upon wondering what to Blog about I wanted to express something which matters to me and for it to be in my words concerning the environment. I had decided to Blog about Blackle.
Blackle for those of you reading who are unaware, is a custom version of the Google search engine developed by Heap Media founded in Sydney Australia in 2005. Heap Media is committed to developing and growing leading online services with global reach.
So you may be asking, “why a custom Google search engine and what does this have to do with the environment”? This is where the purpose plays a role and ties itself with the environment in mind. Different colours consume different amounts of energy on computer monitors, displaying a black page on a CRT monitor is believed to consume 59 watts while a white page will chew through 74 watts. This means 15 watts of energy can be saved from using black instead of white page backgrounds. The creators of Blackle stated that the idea behind this came from a blog, which estimated that a black Google would save 750 Megawatt hours a year! Visit Blackle and take a look and see how many Watt hours have been saved, as I write this 251,975.399 Watt hours saved.
Some may be asking why I chose this topic and why this seems important to me, I’d have to say that just about everybody these days uses a computer, the internet is rampant. Day by day more people are buying PC’s and getting online, it’s no secret that Google is one of the largest search engines used in the world today! So many consumers, so much power consumption, what’s it hurt to use a black alternative to go green? :)
