"I certainly never write a review about a book I don't think worth reviewing, a flat-out bad book, unless it's an enormously fashionable bad book." --
says, John Gardner in Conversations with John Gardner
Quoted from 'Dictionary of Library and Information Science Quotations'     Edited by Mohamed Taher & L S Ramaiah. ISBN: 8185689423 (New Delhi , Aditya, 1994) p.150. Available @ Amazon.com

Saturday, September 01, 2007

Energy-saving Google black screen version - Blackle

Due to a demand from energy conscious users, Google have created a new black screen version of their site called Blackle on www.blackle.com. If everybody used it instead of the white version, it is estimated that 750 mega watts/hour per year would be saved.




See also:
  • Blackle.com: Energy Saving Screen.....Bahhhhhhhhh!!!!
    In the spirit of this, CableOrganizer has taken to some additional testing methodologies with regard to the internet. Some of these have some very real world ecological implications. On this occassion, we've taken to getting to the real story behind Blackle.com.


  • Microsoft surface,Flickr and Blackle
  • 3 comments:

    Unknown said...

    Here's the video where we tested it:

    http://cableorganizer.com/electricity-power-meter/

    Anonymous said...

    There is also the Carbon Neutral Search Engine it uses Google Custom Search but offsets a minimum of 100g of CO2 per search, saving the environment

    Unknown said...

    I like a lot Black Google and the best I found out there is:
    www.pixeleco.com