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TDi90:
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--- Quote from: bravo669 on October 17, 2009, 21:32:52 ---thats odd, whats the story on that then?
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How can i help the environment?
You will greatly reduce the energy consumption of your monitor when you search with bpled.com set this your homepage to start saving your energy every day.
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That cant be right surely your monitor has to work the same amount to bring up a dark coloured background to a white coloured back ground... your monitor is always "on"
R
Saffy:
--- Quote from: TDi90 on October 18, 2009, 09:24:39 ---
--- Quote from: Tanglefoot on October 18, 2009, 08:01:11 ---
--- Quote from: bravo669 on October 17, 2009, 21:32:52 ---thats odd, whats the story on that then?
--- End quote ---
How can i help the environment?
You will greatly reduce the energy consumption of your monitor when you search with bpled.com set this your homepage to start saving your energy every day.
--- End quote ---
That cant be right surely your monitor has to work the same amount to bring up a dark coloured background to a white coloured back ground... your monitor is always "on"
R
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Steve Ryan, program manager for Energy Star’s power-management program, asked consulting firm Cadmus Group to run a quick test by loading Blackle, Google and the Web site of the New York Times (which is, like Google, mostly white on-screen) on two monitors — one CRT, one LCD — and connecting a power meter to both. “We found that the color on screen mattered very little to the energy color consumption of the LCD monitor,” said David Korn, principal at Cadmus, which specializes in energy and environment, and does work for the government. The changes were so slight as to be within the margin of error for the power meter. Tweaking brightness and contrast and settings had a bigger effect. The bulkier CRT screen did see savings with Blackle of between 5% and 20%. Mr. Korn emphasized that this was a quick test, not a rigorous study.
http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/does-a-darkened-google-really-save-electricity-104/
boss:
http://www.alltooflat.com/geeky/elgoog/
Terranosaurus:
I do wonder about stuff like this is it totall benign or is there some alternative data gathering motive behind it.
A quick WHOIS on the domain brings up - Arnoud Arnoud. Might be a coincidence but the MD of MD of PriceWaterhouse Cooper is Arnoud Kerkhof. Maybe a total coincidence or it may be some market research. Bad enough that google gets all our data as it is without passing it through a second party too.
Lord Shagg-Pyle:
Of course, an expanse of black can have a detrimental effect. Ask Marylin Manson or Leonard Cohen.
Or this chap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VqY6hLosCo&feature=related
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