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Ecosmartsearch is owned by Andrew Davey age 13. My search engine is powered by Google.
Back in February I read a blog post by a leading expert in "green" computing called Mark Ontkush he calculated the following:
"An all white web page uses about 74 watts to display, while an all black page uses only 59 watts. I thought I would do a little math and see what could be saved by moving a high volume site to the black format.
Take
at look at Google, who gets about 200 million queries a day. Let's assume
each query is displayed
for about 10
seconds; that means Google is running
for about 550,000 hours every day on some desktop. Assuming that users run
Google in full screen mode, the shift to a black background will save a total
of 15 (74-59) watts. That turns into a global savings of 8.3 Megawatt-hours
per day, or about 3000 Megawatt-hours a year. Now take into account that about
25 percent of the are CRTs, and at 10 cents a kilowatt-hour, that's $75,000,
a goodly amount of energy and dollars for changing a few colour codes."
Mark inspired me to start ecosmartsearch.com
This can be found ecoiron.blogspot.com/2007/01/black-google-would-save-3000-megawatts.html
The point of Ecosmartsearch is not just to save energy, but to make us more
aware. We also hope that by displaying ecosmartsearch when your computer comes
on, you will think of other ways of saving energy. We also would really like
it if you set us as your homepage as a reminder of saving energy
We were also recently in the local paper click here to see the article