An interesting and effortless opportunity to practice personal sustainability, care of EcoIron and Rising Phoenix Design.
Consider a simple calculation:
- According to the U.S. Dept. of Energy, an all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts.
- At 200 million queries per day, Google (white), is displayed about 550,000 hours per day.
- Black Google would save 750 megawatt-hours a year.
If Google is your homepage, try using this instead.
Promote energy-efficient web design. Go black.