hah, that is truly a fantastic thing. forwarded liberally. i've argued for years that working in a terminal environment with white text on a black background gives me more battery life on my laptops. perhaps we'll see 'Carbon Offsetting' in the context of high-traffic sites in future..
this principle could even be extended further to software design: bad software design can lead to unneccesary loads on the system (redundant clock-cycles, memory leakage, bloated file formats): an MS Word document is typically much larger than other document formats of similar features and so requires more hard-disk useage. this is multiplied when sent over a network: how many millions of watts would be gain a day if using the Open Document Format instead? similarly user interfaces with excessive eye-candy (animated toolbars, panels and windows) could be seen to be less environmentally friendly. cheers, julian -- http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net emails containing HTML will not be read. ..on or around Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:51:26AM +1000, Helen Varley Jamieson said: > >>Folks, > >> > >>We probably all use google several times a day - here's something > >>to consider: > >> > >>When your screen is white, be it an empty word page, or the Google > >>page, your computer consumes 74 watts, and when its black it > >>consumes only 59 watts. An article about the energy saving that > >>would be achieved if Google had a black screen, taking into account > >>the huge number of page views, worked out at a saving of 750 mega > >>watts/hour per year. > >> > >>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, check it out: > >> > >>http://www.blackle.com > > > > > > > -- > ____________________________________________________________ > > helen varley jamieson: creative catalyst > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.creative-catalyst.com > http://www.avatarbodycollision.org > http://www.upstage.org.nz > http://www.writerfind.com/hjamieson.htm > ____________________________________________________________ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Ada_list mailing list > [email protected] > http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/ -- http://julianoliver.com http://selectparks.net emails containing HTML will not be read. _______________________________________________ Ada_list mailing list [email protected] http://aotearoadigitalarts.org.nz/
