low carbon google??

Thanks to Stephen Hilton (Bristol City Council) for highlighting this, and also Helen Gould (Digital Challenge, DCLG) for forwarding it to him in the first place!


When your screen is white - an empty word page, or the Google page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it consumes only 59 watts. Mark Ontkush wrote an article about the energy saving that would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking in account the huge number of page views, according to his calculations, 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved. In a response to this article Google created a black version of its search engine, called Blackle, with the exact same functions as the white version, but with a lower energy consumption…. it is also helpful for people with visual impairments too

Try it here