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Aug
black web theory
A new community on internet has appeared, based in on an old theory: video monitors uses more energy to display the white colour rather then black.
The BlackBack Web Theory. http://www.risingphoenixdesign.com/blackback.html
Based on scale of energy consumption measured by professionals from
Rising Phoenix Design, was created the Emergy-C pattern, a group of the
5 colors wich demand less energy consumption plus more the white color
for displaying letters.
You can visit Ecolron website to see an example of the technique, wich was built based on Emergy-C.
The author of this blog did an interesting calcs too,
considering that Google receives about 200 millions of visits per day,
and that each user stay at least 10 seconds doing a quick search, if
the background color used by google was black, an economy of 750MWh per
year is suddenly created, that is energy sufficient to keep 284
default-families by 1 year!!!
Post on google blog:
http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2007/08/is-black-new-green.html
More topics:
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-a-darkened-google-really-save-electricity-104/
http://www.climatesaverscomputing.org/
http://techlogg.com/content/view/360/31/
http://techlogg.com/content/view/367/