www.blackle.com

This is supposed to save energy by not being so bright.

 

Just goes to show you how stupid people are. I bet the tree-huggers that *THINK* they are doing the planet a favor, yet they are actually hurting it more.

"But D, what are you talking about? The screen isn't as bright!"

Farking dolts, LCDs use a steady backlight to illuminate the screen, and the LCD pixels are stimulated to block the right amount of light and display the correct color. To produce WHITE, the crystals don't do jack, they let the light pass. To product BLACK, they need energy to BLOCK THE LIGHT... yes kids, LCDs consume MORE power to display BLACK than white. The difference is minimal, but a difference nonetheless. If modern PC monitors were plasma then it would make perfect sense... plasma TVs drop power consumption dramatically when displaying a black screen.

Bow to the technology guru you brain-dead hippies! God I hate stupid people...

 

well here is the whole thing quoted

"If Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of
page views, according to calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year
would be saved.'

In response Google created a black version of its search engine,
called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version,
but obviously with lower energy consumption:

Help spread the word... use:

http://www.blackle.com"

 

Someone e-mail them..

 

it was a myspace bulletin

 

I just had to, new sig.

 

I kinda like the look of it, maybe F150online should go to a black page as an option too.

I have an old flat face 17" CRT screen, so ******* power usage

 

web page color? if only the tree huggers saw the computer im currently using. i don't think they would be happy

 

are you ever going to get nicer rims for your truck?

 

jeeez kind of harsh man

 

They're playing the cyber race card. What's next?

 

I kind of like the white on black as opposed to the black on white. At work I have AutoCAD setup that way as well, it is alot easier to look at all day.

 

What a crock of sheet. You'd have to calculate how many of each users monitors are CRT and LCD. Then crunch the numbers on power saved on the CRT vs power increase (many neutral, some have minimal power savings) on LCD. Also consider LCD technology has nearly 3/4 of the worlds monitor market, I fail to see any benifit to this 'energy movement'.


.... after some research, I found this was the basis for that calcuation:

200 million queries/day.
10 seconds/query.
Monitor split of 25% CRT, 75% LCD.
CRTs received a 15W differential from white to black,
LCDs received no differential.

Good for them, though they should have noted the savings are only found with CRTs. Why punish the LCD users with that black crap? Another cacluation shows even if 90% of the market was LCD, the lowly 10% would still overpower the LCD market and there would be savings, though no where near the 750MegaWatts/year claimed.

 

ROFLMAO!!

 

Everybody buy plasma screens then switch to blackle. We can make a difference ::starts singing a peace song:: All the money that you save on electricity will just go back into you paying for your new plasma haha